The UN Security Council will meet to consider Palestine’s request to become a UN member state today, Al Jazeera reports.

The council will hold closed consultations in the morning before a public meeting to discuss Palestine’s formal application for full UN membership. It begins at midday New York time.

The Palestinian Authority has held non-member observer status at the UN since 2012, and supporters say about 140 of the UN’s 193-member states already recognise Palestine as a state.

But the application could still be vetoed by a permanent member of the Security Council, with US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller last week saying the question of Palestinian statehood should be determined by “direct negotiations” and “not at the United Nations”.