2023-12-22 17:24:01
This came following a week of postponement of the vote and intense negotiations to reach an agreement and an attempt to avoid the United States using its veto.
Amid global outrage over the rising death toll in Gaza over the 11-week war between Israel and Hamas and the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, the United States abstained from voting to allow the 15-member council to adopt a resolution drafted by the United Arab Emirates.
The rest of the Council members voted in favor of the resolution, with the exception of Russia, which also abstained from voting.
The United States also vetoed a Russian attempt to add a call for an “urgent and sustained cessation of hostilities” to a draft UN Security Council resolution on Gaza.
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