The United States vetoed this Thursday in the Security Council the resolution that opened the door to the entry of Palestine as a member full right of the United Nations, of which now it is only an observer state.
The resolution had been presented by Algeria on behalf of the Arab Group of the United Nations, and garnered 12 favorable votes, against two abstentions (United Kingdom and Switzerland) and the vote against the United Stateswhich underlined the isolation of the United States from the majority of the international community.
Even countries that had been ambiguous during previous speeches (such as France, Japan, Korea and Ecuador) They finally joined the Palestinian request.
The entry of a new member state does not depend on the secretary general, should be recommended by the Security Councilwhere the five permanent members have the right to veto.
Having exceeded the nine votes necessary for its approval, the only thing left was the veto to stop the resolution, and the United States had already said this Thursday that it would exercise that prerogative in favor of its ally, Israel, which is strongly opposed to a Palestinian state.
It is the fourth time since last October 7 that the United States uses the veto in favor of Israel: Before today, you have vetoed three resolutions calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with arguments such as that they did not recognize Israel’s right to defend itself or that a truce would only serve to rearm Hamas.
Today’s resolution had raised enormous expectations, and in fact the heads of diplomacy from Spain, Iran, Algeria, Jordan, Malta, Brazil, Bolivia and Colombia, as well as representatives from 60 other countries, all of them, traveled to New York. in support of the Palestinian petition.
Like Israel, the United States argues that The proclamation of a Palestinian State must be carried out as a result of a bilateral negotiation with Israel, and not impose unilaterally.
To this, the envoy of the Palestinian presidency Ziad Abu Amr He recalled today before the Security Council that this is how Israel entered the UN: the result of a resolution, number 181, which was voted in 1948, and since then it has been a full member state.
