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The UN vote calling for a ceasefire in Gaza has been delayed. The 15-member United Nations Security Council was initially going to vote on a resolution - drafted by the United Arab Emirates - on Monday.
Members of the United Nations Security Council vote on a Gaza resolution at the UN headquarters in New York City on Monday. The resolution was passed with 14 out of 15 votes. The US abstained. MINLU ZHANG/CHINA DAILY The much-awaited UN Security Council resolution to halt Gaza bloodshed was...
Last year, Washington’s envoy to the UN argued that a ban on glorifying Nazism would clash with the First Amendment protection of free speech in the US Constitution. The US has also accused Moscow of using the resolution to push“disinformation narratives”about neo-Nazism in the Baltic state...
The council was initially going to vote on the draft resolution on Monday, but it has now been pushed back to Wednesday amid talks aimed at getting Joe Biden's administration to abstain or vote in favour of the resolution.
"Today's use of the veto by the U.S. delegation is a hopeless attempt to stop the inevitable course of history. The results of the vote, where Washington was practically in complete isolation, speak for themselves," he said. The Palestinian mission to the UN initially requested full member...
He said such "hope has dissipated over the past years because of the intransigence of the Israeli government that has rejected this solution publicly and blatantly, especially following the destructive war against the Gaza Strip."■ Representatives vote on a draft resolution that recommends to the ...
"We cannot imagine how the vote today, as well as the council's failure to respond to the Gaza conflict over the past 13 months, can escape the harsh judgment of history," he said. The Security Council adopted its first cease-fire resolution in June, endorsing a three-phase deal proposed...
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council on Thursday once again postponed the long-delayed vote on a critical resolution for desperately needed aid to Gaza, due to disagreements from the United States. This is the fourth time within a week that the voting has been postpo...
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