The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted, early Saturday, in favor of eight resolutions on Palestine and a ninth on the Syrian Golan Heights. Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the UN Riyad Mansour said, commenting on the vote, that the votes are proof that the international community stands behind and supports the Palestinian cause despite of efforts by the United States to change that. Mansour told Voice of Palestine radio that UNGA voted in favor of four resolutions related to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and four more on the practices of the Israeli authorities in the occupied territories. He added that UNGA is going to vote in two weeks on six more resolutions on the Palestinian cause. A draft resolution “Assistance to Palestine refugees” received 161 votes in favor, 2 against (Israel, United States) and 8 abstentions (Cameroon, Canada, C te d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Solomon Islands).The draft resolution “Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities” received a recorded 155 votes in favor to 5 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, United States) and 10 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, C te d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Palau, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Togo).
In addition, the draft resolution “Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East” was approved by a vote of 158 in favor to 5 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, United States) and 7 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, C te d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Palau, Rwanda, Solomon Islands).
The draft resolution “Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues” was approved by a vote of 155 in favor to 5 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, United States) and 10 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, C te d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Palau, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Togo).A series of resolutions related to the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories were approved. Taking up the draft “Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories,” the General Assembly approved it by a recorded vote of 77 in favor to 8 against (Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, United States) and 79 abstentions.
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