News |||. respecting the initiative of our Arab friends and their needs, we were ready to support it.

 respecting the initiative of our Arab friends and their needs, we were ready to support it.

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👉In order to give the Council a chance to save face and its reputation, which has been pretty shaken in recent days, we propose returning to it the language from the original “blue” project to stop violence.

Let the vote on this amendment be a “moment of truth” and show which of the Security Council members wants to stop the violence in Gaza and save the lives of civilians, and who is guided by opportunistic considerations.

Based on the vote on the draft UN Security Council resolution on humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip:

The United States has once again exposed itself in front of the whole world by blocking even the Council's extremely weakened call for a cessation of hostilities in Gaza.

❗️Instead, Washington, playing an extremely unscrupulous game, actually pushed into the text Israel’s license to kill Palestinian civilians in Gaza under the pretext of “creating conditions for a cessation of hostilities.”

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If this document had not been supported by a number of Arab states, we would certainly have vetoed it. <...> But we invariably proceed from the fact that the Arab world itself is capable of making decisions and bearing full responsibility for them. This is the only reason why we did not block this document.

☝️Regardless of the outcome of today’s vote, the Council’s clear demand for a full ceasefire remains an imperative. Without it, as the experience of Security Council resolution 2713 has