America SLamati Council i Palestine Of United Nations The application for membership was vetoed, while the office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called this act of the United States a clear aggression.
According to the news agency AFP, the United States on Thursday night thwarted the long-running Palestinian bid for full membership of the United Nations through a veto in the Security Council, despite growing international concern over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Israel The move by a key ally was expected even before the vote.
Twelve countries voted in favor of the draft resolution recommending full membership for Palestine, while Britain and Switzerland abstained.
The office of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called the US veto a “blatant aggression that is pushing the region further into the abyss.”
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, said with emotional and wet eyes: ‘The fact is that the resolution will not be passed and our resolve will not be broken and it will not defeat our morale.’
According to him: ‘We will not stop our efforts. The state of Palestine is inevitable. This is a real one. Remember that even while this session is going on, innocent civilians in Palestine are paying the price with their lives for delaying justice, freedom and peace.’
During the Palestinian delegate’s speech, the eyes of other people in the room were also moist.
The draft resolution called on the General Assembly to recommend that ‘the State of Palestine be admitted to the United Nations in place of its current status of observer.’
Despite the US veto, Algerian Ambassador Amr Benjamin, who introduced the draft, said the overwhelming support for the resolution is a clear message that support for a full Palestinian state will come back stronger and louder.
Any request to become a member of the United Nations must first receive a recommendation from the Security Council, i.e. the support of at least nine votes out of 15 without a veto, after which ratification by a two-thirds majority of the General Assembly is required.
America, Israel’s main ally, has not hesitated to use its veto to support Israel in the past.
Washington has said there is no change in its position that the UN is not the place to recognize a Palestinian state that should be recognized as a result of a peace deal with Israel.
“The United States continues to strongly support the two-state solution,” US Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood said after Thursday’s vote. However, this vote does not reflect opposition to a Palestinian state, but an acknowledgment that it should only be through direct negotiations between the parties.
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Israel condemned this resolution. Gilad Erdan, Tel Aviv’s ambassador to the United Nations, said the overwhelming support for the resolution had encouraged the Palestinians to avoid the negotiating table and ‘make peace almost impossible’.
“Talking to this council is like talking to a brick wall,” he said.
The Israeli government opposes the two-state solution, but most of the international community supports it.
A majority of the 193 member states of the United Nations, 137 countries, according to Palestinian data, have unilaterally recognized the Palestinian state.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres presented a bleak picture of the situation in the Middle East, saying that the region is “vulnerable.”
Addressing a high-level meeting of the Security Council, Guterres said that Israel’s military offensive in Gaza has created a “human hellscape” for civilians trapped there.
“Now is the time to end the bloody cycle of retaliation,” he said.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 33,970 people have been killed in the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian organization Hamas said in a statement that it condemns the US veto.
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