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Indonesia regrets UN’s latest failure on Palestine's full membership
The United States vetoed a draft resolution that would recommend the 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly to accept Palestine's full membership to the world body, stopping the UN from recognizing a Palestinian state.
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United States Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood votes against a resolution allowing Palestinian UN membership at UN headquarters in New York, the United States, on April 18, 2024, during a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. The draft resolution, which was introduced by Algeria and “recommends to the General Assembly that the State of Palestine be admitted to membership of the United Nations,“ received 12 votes in favor, two abstentions and one against. (AFP/Angela Weiss)
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he Foreign Ministry laments the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) latest failure to grant full membership to Palestine at the world body following a veto from the United States.
Members of the security council voted in a meeting in New York, the US, on Thursday local time a draft resolution that recommended to the 193 members of the UN General Assembly the admission of the State of Palestine to the UN.
The US, one of the council’s permanent members and among Israel’s most significant allies, was the only country to vote against the resolution.
The United Kingdom and Switzerland opted to abstain, while the remaining 12 members, including France, Russia, China and Japan, voted yes.
In a statement posted on its official X account on Friday, the Foreign Ministry stated that the country “deeply regrets” not adopting the resolution “due to a veto cast by one of its permanent members.”
1️⃣ Indonesia deeply regrets another failure by the UNSC to adopt a Resolution on the full-UN membership of the State of Palestine's, due to a veto casted by one of its permanent members.
— MoFA Indonesia (@Kemlu_RI) April 19, 2024
“This veto once again betrayed the shared aspiration to build lasting peace in the Middle East,” the ministry wrote.
