The Palestinian president, Mahmud Abbas, described this Saturday the United States veto in the UN Security Council to prevent Palestine’s entry into the United Nations as a full member of “flagrant aggression” against the rights of the Palestinian people and of “challenge to the will of the international community.”
“We will reconsider bilateral relations with the United States to ensure the protection of the interests of our people, our cause and our rights,” said the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), in an interview with the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
US veto at the United Nations
On Thursday, the United States vetoed the resolution, which received the support of 12 members, the abstention of two (the United Kingdom and Switzerland) and only the opposite vote of Washington. “The United States has violated all international laws and has broken all the promises it talks about regarding the two-state solution and achieving peace in the region,” said Abbas, who called on the Administration of President Joe Biden to review its “wrong policies.”
Likewise, he warned that “the hostile positions” of the United States “have created unprecedented anger between the Palestinian people and the peoples of the region, which could push the region towards greater instability and increase chaos and terrorism.” Several Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar and Egypt, expressed their “deep regret” over the council’s “failure” and “inability” to accept Palestine’s membership in the face of a US veto.
Criticism from the Arab world, but also from Latin America
This was also expressed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), made up of 57 member states, and based in the Saudi city of Jeddah, which denounced that the US veto comes “at a time when the Palestinian people are exposed to the harshest levels of aggression, persecution and genocide. Other countries, including Cuba and Bolivia, have leveled similar criticism.
Abbas returned in the interview to denounce the “ongoing war of annihilation” launched by Israel against Gaza, where more than 34,000 Palestinians have already died, and what he described as a “frantic campaign” against UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, “aimed at starving the Palestinian people” before warning that these policies “will bring the region to the brink of the abyss.”
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