The U.N. General Assembly 10th Emergency Special Session yielded 156 votes in favor of a resolution calling for Israel to immediately halt its military operations and pull its troops out of Gaza. There were 7 votes against the resolution, including the U.S., Israel and Australia with 6 abstentions.(1)
Masood Haider of The Dawn and President of the United Nations Correspondents Association reported that the call for a U.N. inquiry into the attack delayed Assembly action for hours, as the U.N. body's budget committee debated whether the effort would duplicate a similar mission ordered by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. In the end, the budget committee approved the new panel's estimated $130,000 budget by a vote of 143-5 with two abstentions.
Revealing a taste for riddles, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton quipped: “What about the fact-finding mission that the Human Rights Council has agreed to? How many fact-finding missions does it take to screw in a light bulb?"
I suppose we’ll have an answer to that soon enough.
Elisa Burchett
U.N. OBSERVER & International Report
(1) “No.” Votes: Australia, Israel, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and the United States.
Abstentions: Canada, Ivory Coast, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
Please also see:
Ambassador Bolton Accuses U.N. of Bias against Israel, notes Elisa Burchett
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2830&blz=1
Lebanon: UN mission protests Israeli air violations
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20651&Cr=Leban&Cr1=
Leftists: We have 1 casualty, they have 80
Some 400 'Peace Now' activists protest at Erez Crossing, call for Israeli-Palestinian negotiation. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3329548,00.html
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3329665,00.html
The War Prayer, by Mark Twain http://www.warprayer.org
United Nations Correspondents Association http://www.un.org/other/unca
Masood Haider of The Dawn and President of the United Nations Correspondents Association reported that the call for a U.N. inquiry into the attack delayed Assembly action for hours, as the U.N. body's budget committee debated whether the effort would duplicate a similar mission ordered by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. In the end, the budget committee approved the new panel's estimated $130,000 budget by a vote of 143-5 with two abstentions.
Revealing a taste for riddles, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton quipped: “What about the fact-finding mission that the Human Rights Council has agreed to? How many fact-finding missions does it take to screw in a light bulb?"
I suppose we’ll have an answer to that soon enough.
Elisa Burchett
U.N. OBSERVER & International Report
(1) “No.” Votes: Australia, Israel, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and the United States.
Abstentions: Canada, Ivory Coast, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
Please also see:
Ambassador Bolton Accuses U.N. of Bias against Israel, notes Elisa Burchett
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2830&blz=1
Lebanon: UN mission protests Israeli air violations
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20651&Cr=Leban&Cr1=
Leftists: We have 1 casualty, they have 80
Some 400 'Peace Now' activists protest at Erez Crossing, call for Israeli-Palestinian negotiation. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3329548,00.html
Sderot: Man moderately-to-seriously injured by Qassam
New wave of Qassam attacks hits Sderot, which suffers 6 direct hits; man moderately-to-seriously injured, 2 lightly injured
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3329665,00.html
The War Prayer, by Mark Twain http://www.warprayer.org
United Nations Correspondents Association http://www.un.org/other/unca