The UN Security Council is celebrating today its monthly analysis of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, in a scenario marked by the existence of two draft resolutions aimed at resolving the dispute.
The UN Security Council is celebrating today its monthly analysis of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, in a scenario marked by the existence of two draft resolutions aimed at resolving the dispute.
This is a new session of the 15-member body, accused of inaction facing the suffering of the Palestinian people, which will mark 50 years under the Israeli occupation in 2017.
New Zealand has been promoting an initiative aimed at keeping alive the two-State solution, in which the United Nations has warned it is increasingly moving away from Israel's efforts to colonize the occupied territories through the systematic construction of settlements as well as by the violence prevailing in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The project seeks the resumption of peace negotiations.
The other text, led by Palestine, aims to demand the occupiers the end of the expansion of their colonies in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
According to experts, this resolution is rather similar to that vetoed by the United States in 2011.
Washington has been the main obstacle to overcome in the Security Council for the adoption of any draft on the dispute, given its traditional support in the 15-member body to Israel, its strategic ally in the Middle East.
President Barack Obama who is leaving the White House in just one month has given rise to some hopes that the United States expeditiously provides an initiative to break the peace process deadlock.
Source: PL