The United States voted alone against a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have granted full U.N. member status for Palestine as a state.
U.S. representative Robert A. Wood raises his hand to indicate his vote against United Nations membership for Palestine during a Security Council meeting in New York on Thursday. The United States was alone Thursday in voting against a United Nations Security Council resolution to admit the Palestinian territories as a full U.N. member state. Its veto killed the measure, proposed by Algeria on behalf of Arab nations.
The vast majority of the council disagreed, with some saying the United States, and its unwavering support for Israel, bears responsibility for the ongoing agony of the Palestinian people. “Today’s use of the veto by the U.S. delegation is a hopeless attempt to stop the inevitable course of history,” Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya said.
The outcome of the vote was a foregone conclusion, since the Biden administration said in advance that it would veto the resolution. Passage required both nine votes out of 15, and no veto by a permanent member — including Britain, France, Russia and China as well as the United States. The administration had lobbied members to vote no or abstain, allowing it to avoid a veto.
Algeria, which sponsored the resolution, said, “We will not abandon this course, and we will not rest until the objective is achieved.”The vote came after a passionate, day-long debate that included not only council members, but also nonvoting U.N. members who signed up to have a say. Several sent their foreign ministers.Ziad Abu Amr, special representative of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and others repeatedly noted that the same 1947 U.N.
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