By Clive Hambidge & Soraya Boyd
It was ultimately rejected by the UN Security Council
because it was not able to meet the minimum requirement of nine ‘yes’ votes. The resolution which stressed
the pressing need to reach “a just, lasting and comprehensive peaceful solution” within a twelve month period
would have passed had Nigeria, which abstained, voted
in favour thus securing the required nine ‘yes’ votes to
be adopted by the fifteen UNSC members. Did the US
apply undue or covert pressure on Nigeria? This was
certainly yet another missed opportunity.
Samantha Power, US Ambassador, stated “We voted
against this resolution not because we are comfortable with the status quo. We voted against it because …
peace must come from hard compromises that occur
at the negotiating table.” Such is the view of the broken
broker. Hard compromise? negotiating table? Whose
compromise and which table? No matter, we, in the
international community, have a conscionable duty to
support any and all political actions to establish this call
for a 2017 internationally recognised Palestinian State.
VATICAN TREATY IN RECOGNITION OF
PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD
In 2012, the Vatican recognised the ‘State of Palestine’ soon after the UN granted Palestine a ‘nonmember observer status’. Causing a stir, the Vatican
recently announced that a drawn up treaty which
re-affirms the recognition of Palestinian Statehood
is in the process of being finalised in Rome by a
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