No UN vote on Palestine
Nawaf Salam (back to camera), Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the UN and President of the Security Council for September, speaks to the press following the Council’s first deliberation on the Palestinian application for UN membership. UN photo by Mark Garten
By KENNETH R. BAZINET
Talk Radio News Service
Do not be fooled by Monday’s closed-door meeting at the United Nations Security Council: It will be a long slog before any votes or vetoes are cast in the Palestinian statehood issue.
The UN Security Council will not set up a committee to review Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s application for statehood (formally presented last Friday) until then end of this week, at the earliest.
So while the UN Security Council is meeting privately to discuss the future of Palestine, we are talking weeks, perhaps months, before a vote is taken.
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Posted by Gary
on Sep 27 2011. Filed under Breaking News, World.
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