UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday (Oct 25) failed again to take action on the Israel-Hamas war, with Russia and China vetoing a United States-led dra
A general view during a vote at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the conflict between Israel and Hamas at UN headquarters in New York, US on Oct 16, 2023. UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday failed again to take action on the Israel-Hamas war, withThe rival powers went ahead and put forward texts doomed to defeat despite what diplomats said was a last-ditch effort led by France to delay a vote and work toward consensus.
Ten countries backed the US resolution but Russia and China exercised their veto power. The United Arab Emirates, whose relations with Israel have warmed markedly since normalisation in 2020 but represents the Arab bloc, also voted in opposition, with the other two countries, Brazil and Mozambique, abstaining.
The US ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, insisted that the United States had incorporated feedback from the rest of the world since its veto. She accused Russia, often on the receiving end of criticism since its invasion of Ukraine, of"cynical and irresponsible behaviour" for putting forward its own text"with zero consultations" and"a number of problematic sections".
At the high-level session on Tuesday,"we heard dozens of statements imploring this council to assign the same value to Palestinian life as it does to Israeli life", she said.With the Security Council deadlocked, the broader UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate the war on Thursday and Friday.
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