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Maldives Calls for Abolition of Veto Power in UNSC Amid ‘Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians’

The Maldives called for the abolition of veto power in the UN Security Council, with Housing Minister Ali Haidar Ahmed saying at the 78th session of the UN General Assembly that a single US vote blocked action on Palestine. Ahmed also called on Israel to recognise Palestine as an independent state and return occupied Palestinian lands.

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  • As we speak Isreal is carrying out its mass killings in Palestine… Palestinian bodies are being unearthed from mass graves… Palestinian families are being dug out from the rubble by children’s own hands… The Security Council cannot claim t…

    Ali Haidar Ahmed Maldives Republic Open the report (Maldives Republic)

  • With that one vote, the UN Security Council has failed again… With that veto, the UN Security Council has failed to stop Israel’s genocide of Palestinians,

    Ali Haidar Ahmed Maldives Republic Open the report (Maldives Republic)

  • Under no circumstances can we pretend that this is not happening

    Ali Haidar Ahmed Maldives Republic Open the report (Maldives Republic)

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Maldives Calls for Abolition of Veto Power in UNSC Amid ‘Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians’

140 states UN member states whose will Ahmed said the single veto silenced

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  • 140 states UN member states whose will Ahmed said the single veto silenced Maldives Republic that one vote silenced the will of the 140 UN, and 12 members of the Security Council

    Word for word from the report in Maldives Republic. Open the report

  • 12 members Security Council members whose will Ahmed said the single veto silenced Maldives Republic that one vote silenced the will of the 140 UN, and 12 members of the Security Council, as well as that of millions of people around the world

    Word for word from the report in Maldives Republic. Open the report

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  • The United States vetoed Palestine's UN membership at the Security Council. last month UN Security Council Maldives Republic The United States had, before Palestine’s UN membership could be submitted to the General Assembly last month, vetoed it at the Security Council.

    Word for word from the report in Maldives Republic. Open the report

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