Overwhelming majority in favor of the participation of Palestine and against the US veto to its leaders to avoid their participation in the United Nations General Assembly. The decision has been taken by 145 votes in favor, 5 against – among them the US and Israel – and 6 abstentions – one of them, Hungary.
The Palestine ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, denounced “the abuse of authority” and the “punishment to the state of Palestine”, and added: “We have the right to be with all of you, for our leaders to feel with you since you share your thoughts and ideas peacefully and diplomatically.”
The resolution is the result of the US government's decision to deny and revoke visas to the members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (AP) for the UN National Assembly, whose headquarters are New York.
The veto is produced before the celebration this September of the inaugural session of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, where the announcement of the recognition of the Palestinian State is expected by countries such as countries such as countries such as countries such as countries such as countries such as countries such as FranceUnited Kingdom or Australia.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has argued that “before the PLO and the AP can be considered partners for peace, they must systematically repudiate terrorism – including the massacre of October 7 – and stop inciting terrorism in education,” adds the press release issued from the State Department spokesman.
The vote of the General Assembly of this Friday comes after the US verted this Thursday a resolution of the UN Security Council that requested a high fire in Gaza, the release of the Israeli hostages by Hamas and the immediate entry of humanitarian aid in the strip. And he has done it while the Benjamín Netanyahu government is immersed in the Take of Gaza City, after almost two years of a genocide that started after Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023.
The text was presented by the ten non -permanent members of the Council (Algeria, Denmark, Slovenia, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone and Somalia), and received the support of all permanent members (Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom) except the US, which with its veto prevented its approval.
Genocide
The UN Research Commission concludes that Israel commits genocide in Gaza. This adds to other expert voices that have been denouncing the genocide for some time; In his report he lists evidence and indicates the responsibility of the countries: “States may face legal consequences if they do not act.”
In his reportof 72 pages, highlights the existence of four of the five genocide criteria: “murders, cause serious bodily damage, deliberately inflict living conditions calculated to cause the destruction and imposition of measures aimed at preventing births.”
These crimes are characteristics of the genocide and were committed by Israeli authorities and security forces “with the specific intention of destroying, totally or partially, the Palestinians in Gaza.”
Is Conclusions They add to others issued this year or in 2024, such as those of the UN Rapporteur, which in March of that year already issued a report denouncing the existence of an ongoing genocide, or those of the Lemkin Institute for the prevention of genocide. In addition, this summer the highest academic authority on the subject, the International Association of Genocide Scholarsit also spoke similarly, just as organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch or b zelem. Today's is an important pronouncement in the UN environment.