Obama Administration Will Veto Palestinian State Resolution in Security Council

David Streeter — September 8, 2011 – 4:18 pm | Barack Obama | Foreign Policy | Israel Comments (3) Add a comment

Officials from the Obama Administration announced that it will veto a unilateral Palestinian state resolution should one reach the United Nations Security Council. Haaretz reported:

A top U.S. official confirmed Wednesday that the Obama administration would veto a resolution to recognize a Palestinian state, should one be put forth before the Security Council.

‘The administration has been very clear that if any such resolution were put in front of the Security Council, that we would veto it,’ said Wendy Sherman, newly-confirmed Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, on Wednesday during her Senate confirmation hearing….

‘The President has been very clear that a UN resolution to recognize Palestine will not get us to the two-state solution that both parties seek, and that most of the world seeks,’ Sherman said in an exchange with the U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT).

Sherman continued, stating that direct negotiations are the ‘only path to that resolution…The administration has been very clear that if any such resolution were put in front of the Security Council, that we would veto it.’

AFP reported:

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said US opposition to such a move by the Palestinians ‘should not come as a shock.’

‘So yes, if something comes to a vote in the UN security council, the US will veto,’ she said.

 

 

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