Saudi Arabia Regrets Failure of Resolution on Palestine’s Full Membership in UN
The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the Kingdom’s regret over the failure of the UN Security Council to adopt a draft resolution accepting Palestine’s full membership in the United Nations, according to Al Arabiya.
The Foreign Ministry stressed that obstructing the acceptance of full membership of the State of Palestine in the United Nations will increase the Israeli occupation’s intransigence and violations of the rules of international law without deterrence, and will not bring the desired peace closer.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs renewed the Kingdom’s demand that the international community assumes its responsibility towards stopping the Israeli occupation’s attacks on civilians in the Gaza Strip. It further calls the international community to support the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and establishing their Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative and relevant international resolutions.
The UN Security Council failed to adopt a draft resolution granting Palestine full membership in the United Nations after the United States used its veto power.
The draft resolution submitted by Algeria, which “recommends the General Assembly to accept the State of Palestine as a member of the United Nations,” was supported by 12 members and opposed by the United States, while Britain and Switzerland abstained from voting.
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