Gli Stati Uniti hanno dovuto utilizzare il loro veto nel Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite per poter l`accesso come membro alla Palestina, dopo aver cercato in vano il supporto di qualche alleato sull`astensione per evitare il veto (alla fine si sono astenuti in 2, Svizzera e GB, ne servivano altri 3 se non ho sbagliato i conti).
The Biden administration had signaled its plans to vote against the resolution.
“We have been pretty clear that sustainable peace in the region can only be achieved through a two-state solution with Israel’s security guaranteed. And it remains our view that the most expeditious path toward statehood for the Palestinian people is through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority ,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters earlier Thursday.
“ We also have been very clear consistently that premature actions in New York, even with the best intentions, will not achieve statehood for the Palestinian people ,” Patel said.
“How could granting the state of Palestine full membership of the United Nations … damage the prospects of peace between Palestinians and Israelis?” asked Ziad Abu Amr, special representative of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. “ To those who say that recognizing a Palestinian state must happen through negotiations and not through a U.N. resolution, we wonder again, how was the state of Israel established? ”