The EU for the first time participated in the World Expo in a non-EU member state. And many Chinese people are deeply impressed by the celebration of the European Day in Shanghai during the Expo.

General Assembly where they hold observer status as an 'entity', and if they get a two-thirds majority approval - which is likely - upgrade to 'non-member state' observer.

Plan b, as outlined by Palestinian officials, is to ask the General Assembly to upgrade Palestine to a non-member state from its current status as an observer.