Mahmoud Abbas: America’s veto against Palestine is “disappointing” and “shameful”.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas today (Saturday) called the US veto against granting Palestine full membership in the United Nations a “disappointing”, “shameful”, “unacceptable” position. He called it “justification” and “irresponsible”.

In an interview with the Palestinian news agency (Wafa), he said that America’s use of your right against granting full membership to Palestine in the United Nations is a disappointing, regrettable, shameful position. It is irresponsible and unjustifiable.

Abbas stressed that this US action is a clear violation of the rights of the Palestinian nation, its history, land and sanctities, as well as challenging the will of the international community.

Referring to America’s support for the Zionist regime, he said that America still opposes forcing Israel to stop the genocide. It even provides arms and financial support to this regime and takes positions against the Palestinian nation in international circles, which are not in favor of the security and stability of the region and the world.

The head of the Palestinian Authority stated that the United States should know that the West Asia will never be stable without a just solution to the Palestinian issue, and also emphasized: Al-Quds, both Islamic and Christian holy places, is a red line and has never allowed anyone to cross it. will not The policy of one roof and two airs and supporting Israel’s aggression against the Palestinian nation will never change anything.

Mahmoud Abbas advised the American government to reconsider its wrong policies, warned about the failure to solve the Palestinian issue and its consequences for the entire region, and held the American government responsible for the disorder in the region.

America vetoed the resolution of Palestine’s full membership in the United Nations in the Security Council voting on Friday morning, and 12 of the 15 members of the Security Council voted in favor of this resolution, while Britain and Switzerland abstained. Algeria draft resolution He had presented the full membership of Palestine in the United Nations to the United Nations Security Council, and on Thursday he demanded that it be proposed in the council meeting.

The country of Malta, which is the rotating president of the Security Council this month (April), first announced that the Security Council would make a decision on this matter on Friday evening local time, but finally this meeting was held on Thursday evening local time. /p>

Approval of a resolution in the UN Security Council requires at least 9 positive votes without opposition or the veto of the five permanent members of the Security Council, namely the United States, England, Russia, France and China.

Source: IRNA