Immediately after the UNGA vote, UN officials still opposed Palestinian efforts to independently change "Palestine" to "State of Palestine" in the formal name of their permanent observer mission. When they saw that the sign on the Palestinian delegation's bench in the General Assembly Hall that used to say "Palestine" had been replaced with a sign reading "State of Palestine," they called for the new sign be replaced with the old one, stating that as long as Palestine is merely a non-member state, it cannot independently ask for its name to be changed on the sign on its bench.Ahren, Raphael. (25 December 2012) After upgrading status, UN officially switches from 'Palestine' to 'State of Palestine'. The Times of Israel. Retrieved on 2013-12-06.
