Russia and China veto the first resolution in which the US called for a ceasefire in Gaza

Russia It is China This Friday they vetoed the first resolution of the Security Council of the UN in which U.S called for an immediate ceasefire in Linkafter almost six months of war that cost the lives of 32 thousand people.

The resolution was also rejected by Algeriawhile Guyana abstained and the other eleven countries voted in favor.

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Nine favorable votes are enough to approve a resolution, but negative votes from two countries with veto rights (in this case Russia and China) prevented its approval.

This is the fourth time that a resolution to this effect has been vetoed by a Member State; on the three previous occasions it was the United States that vetoed it, arguing in those cases that it did not recognize Israel’s right to defend itself and in fact allowed the rearmament and reorganization of Hamas.

The resolution rejected today, which was negotiated for a month and required at least six projects, was rejected for its ambiguous vocabulary, since, in the words of the Russian ambassador, Vasili Nebenzia, before the vote, he considered that it did not clearly call for a cease -fire, but limited itself to considering “an imperative for an immediate and sustained ceasefire to protect civilians on both sides”.

Nebenzia said that the resolution presented by the US was “a hypocritical initiative aimed at disorienting the international community”, lamented that the Russian proposals to change the text had been systematically rejected by Washington and also considered that the text voted on today “in fact presupposes the light green for Israel to carry out a military operation in Rafah.”

As for Algeria’s ambassador, Amar Bendjama, he said that his rejection did not just represent his country, but “the entire Arab world”, and stated that the text of the US resolution “does not convey a clear message of peace, but tacitly allows civilian casualties continue (fall) and there is a lack of safeguards for a future escalation of the conflict.

The Chinese ambassador, Zhang Jun, also considered the text voted today “ambiguous”, because “it does not clearly call for a ceasefire” and because “it departs from the consensus of the Council members and is far from the expectations of the international community”. .” ”, in addition to containing conditions for this ceasefire.

Another resolution with clearer language on the ceasefire is currently being negotiated in parallel in the Security Council and, although Russia and China have stated that they will support this other resolution, it remains to be seen what the United States’ attitude will be. this.

At the same time, the United States is sponsoring other indirect negotiations in Doha (Qatar) between Hamas and Israel with a view to an exchange of prisoners between the two parties and a possible truce.

Also yesterday, the European Union called for an “immediate humanitarian pause” that “leads to a sustainable ceasefire”, the first common position in this sense in the European club, where Israel has solid allies such as Germany and the Netherlands.

All this political and diplomatic activity intensified after a dramatic UN report was released on Monday, stating that 1.1 million Gazans were on the verge of entering “catastrophic food insecurity”, the most serious degree of hunger.

Source: Elcomercio

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