Arab and Islamic reactions condemning the failure to approve full membership of Palestine in the United Nations
Many Arab and Islamic organizations condemned the failure of the UN Security Council to pass a resolution granting Palestine full membership in the United Nations, after the United States of America used its veto power. In voting on the draft resolution.
For his part, the Speaker of the Arab Parliament, Adel bin Abdul Rahman Al-Asoumi, denounced the inability of the UN Security Council to issue a resolution enabling the State of Palestine to obtain full membership. At the United Nations, criticizing the United States’ use of the veto. Which is considered a usurpation of the legitimate Palestinian rights to recognize the Palestinian state and acknowledge its full membership in the United Nations.
The President of the Arab Parliament stressed the need to fully enable the Palestinian people to exercise all their legitimate rights through International recognition of the existence of the Palestinian state and raising the flag of Palestine inside and outside the corridors of the United Nations headquarters, calling on the international community to assume its legal and historical responsibility regarding the necessity of ending the brutal occupation of the Palestinian territories, and reaching a final and just solution to the Palestinian issue, on the basis of establishing the independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Al-Asoumi stressed that the Arab Parliament continues to fully support legitimate Palestinian rights at all regional and international levels.
< p>In the same context, the Muslim World League affirmed that obstructing the acceptance of full membership of the State of Palestine in the United Nations exacerbates the suffering of its oppressed people, encourages the occupation’s stubbornness to continue its violations of the rules of international law without deterrence, and represents a major obstacle on the path to the just and comprehensive peace that everyone seeks.
The Association expressed – in a statement to the General Secretariat, according to the Saudi News Agency “SPA” Today, Friday, it regretted the failure of the UN Security Council to adopt a draft resolution accepting full membership of the State of Palestine in the United Nations.
The Association renewed its demand for the international community to fulfill its responsibilities towards stopping the Israeli occupation’s attacks. On civilians in the Gaza Strip, and to support the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, and to establish 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 Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Jassim Mohammed Al-Budaiwi, also confirmed that the United States’ use of the “veto” In the UN Security Council to prevent the recognition of the State of Palestine as a full member of the United Nations, this is considered a step backward in efforts to achieve just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
Al-Budaiwi stressed – in a statement reported by the agency Saudi News "SPA" – The Security Council must take necessary and serious steps to re-evaluate international peace mechanisms in a way that ensures that peoples’ rights are not neglected and maintains regional and global security and stability, and that all countries and international organizations must stand by truth and justice and support efforts to restore rights and build a better future for all the peoples of the region and the world.
He affirmed the firm position of the Gulf Cooperation Council in support of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital. He called on the international community to work in an appropriate manner. Firm and immediate to ensure recognition of the State of Palestine and empower the Palestinian people with their basic and legitimate rights in accordance with United Nations resolutions and international law.
In the same context, Syria condemned the United States of America’s use of its veto power. "veto" Against the draft resolution submitted by Algeria before the Security Council to grant Palestine full membership in the United Nations.
The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates indicated – in a statement today reported by the Syrian News Agency “SANA” ; – That the United States of America’s obstruction of the Security Council from assuming its historical responsibility to support the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people represents another disgrace added to its track record of striking and undermining the foundations of collective international action and its blind bias in favor of the Israeli occupation entity, and evidence of its political hypocrisy through its selective dealings with Implementing Security Council resolutions, all of which emphasize the necessity of fulfilling the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry stated: The vote of the majority of member states in favor of the resolution clearly reflected their support for the global conscience and its duty to lift the historical injustice to which the Palestinian people have been subjected for more than 70 years… stressing that preventing the establishment of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state on Palestinian soil will only contribute to prolonging The prolonged state of insecurity and stability in the Middle East region resulting originally from the Israeli entity’s continued occupation of Arab lands, and its practice of the most heinous crimes of aggression against their peoples, and the war and genocide crimes it has been committing in the Gaza Strip for several months are only a clear example of that.
The statement referred to Syria’s firm assertion that defying international will and obstructing the Security Council from doing justice to the Palestinian people will not weaken their resolve and their ongoing struggle to obtain their legitimate rights.
The UN Security Council failed yesterday evening to pass a draft resolution accepting full membership of Palestine in the United Nations, after the United States used its veto power. In voting on the draft resolution.
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