from Press TV
Members of the UN Security Council have failed to reach a consensus on the Palestinian bid to become a full member state of the United Nations.
Two-thirds of the council’s members were in favor of full Palestinian membership, but “there was no consensus” during the closed-door meeting held on Thursday, said Maltese Ambassador Vanessa Frazier, who holds the council's rotating presidency for April.
The US is a staunch opponent of Palestinian statehood, arguing that the United Nations is not the place for hashing out the status, which it says should be the result of an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
Last week, Palestinians revived a 2011 application for a full UN membership, which would amount to recognition of Palestinian statehood in light of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
This prompted the Security Council to launch a formal review process through the ad hoc committee, which was composed of the council's member states and met on Thursday.
The Biden administration, however, indicated that it opposes the renewed Palestinian bid to obtain full-member state status.
“We have always made clear that, while we support the establishment of an independent Palestinian state… that is something that should be done through direct negotiations through the parties — something we are pursuing at this time — and not at the United Nations,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said during a press briefing...
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NOTE Henry here iscorrect even more than for the few reasons here.
ReplyDeleteFirst we'll see next week if those NG testimony of JAN 6 even get heard, which show just as every other thing in his 4-year term that Drumpf is in charge of nothing!
Grocery Clerk what's in charge, at best.
Just like again 24 hours ago we see him and Johnson meeting, schmoozing and scheming on this $61B uke aid package, claiming OK to go ahead so long as it's a loan only!
Ummm, isn't the Mummy the duly elected leiter who should be doing this?
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=285414
My vote goes to RFK Jr. even though his choice of VP was ridiculous. At least RFK Jr. isn’t a Cabalist and crypto Jew like Trump. At least he fought Trump’s “vaccine.”