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Thanks for your quick and polite response. If you'll pardon an ignorant follow-up question, does the UN have any Embassies? I couldn't locate anything specifically called an Embassy at the UN wesite. Also, your link to ""diplomatic mission"" yields the following line: A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organization (such as the United Nations) present in another state to represent the sending state/organization in the receiving state. (Emphasis added)
Since ""Palestine"" is not an international inter-governmental organization, doesn't it follow that to the States which house ""Palestinian"" Embassies, at least, ""Palestine"" is a State? Is ""Palestine"" an exception to this? What exactly are the criteria for statehood? Are these criteria universally accepted by all States? -  "