(Reuters) Patrick Worsnip - Security Council dynamics are no more favorable now to a Palestinian UN membership bid than they were last year despite a partial change in the council makeup, U.S. ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said on Monday. Newcomer Azerbaijan is thought likely to support the Palestinian application, whereas its predecessor, Bosnia, was expected to abstain. But Guatemala is unlikely to follow its predecessor, Brazil, in backing the Palestinians. The other three newcomers represent no change. Rice reaffirmed that a Palestinian state would come only through direct negotiations with Israel, not "through a short-cut at the United Nations."
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