The phrase "application for statehood" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the process or request for a region or territory to become a recognized state.
Example: "The committee submitted an application for statehood to the federal government, seeking to gain full representation and rights."
Alternatives: "request for statehood" or "petition for statehood".
4. Why did Missouri's application for statehood in 1819 cause a political crisis?
And he provides an example of Mr Abbas, widely viewed even in Israel as a peace-seeking believer in non-violent negotiations, engaging in what sounds like some pretty violent rhetoric:[T]hose who would accept the position Abbas has taken, even as recently as Friday, when he submitted to the United Nations an application for statehood, should be aware of the work of Palestinian Media Watch.
He reported on California's and New Mexico's applications for statehood, and recommended that Congress approve them as written and "should abstain from the introduction of those exciting topics of a sectional character".
Announced by president Mahmoud Abbas last week (video), the move is a significant diminution of Palestinian ambitions after its application for full statehood failed last year when it was blocked by the US in the security council.
He said the Palestinians still intended to submit an application for recognition of Palestinian statehood to the Security Council as a first step, at risk of a confrontation with the United States.
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority earned the admiration of many of his people by pressing his case for statehood upon the Security Council, rejecting American requests to withhold the application and refusing to return to negotiations with Israel without a freeze on settlements in the West Bank.
Washington not only failed to dissuade the Palestinians from a unilateral bid for statehood, but also fell short of its goal of confining the application to the United Nations General Assembly, where Obama administration officials believe a vote in favor of statehood would be more symbolic and less divisive.
Early aspirations for statehood have since faded.
The governor of Alaska asked for statehood.
The World Bank hailed his tenure for preparing Palestine for statehood.
Blocking his bid for statehood will only empower extremists further.
