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...
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.
hoping for a better result than in another recent vote on a similar resolution in the Security Council which left the U.S. alone against the 14 other Council members,CBS News' Pamela Falk reported. The U.S., as a permanent member of the Council, was able to veto that measure...
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He said Palestinians in Gaza "have been pushed to the very edge of the strip, to the very brink of life" with Israel besieging Rafah. "We want peace, we want freedom," Mansour said. "A yes vote is a vote for Palestinian existence, it is not against any state ... It is an inves...
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 ...
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.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council on Monday issued its first demand for a cease-fire in Gaza, with the U.S. angering Israel by abstaining from the vote. Israel responded by canceling a visit to Washington by a high-level delegati
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The Palestinian Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Ibrahim Khraishi, expressed approval of the vote but also voiced dissatisfaction with the lack of support from certain Western countries. Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israel's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, condemned the resolution as a stain...