New Zealand has voted for a United Nations resolution on Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian Territory with some caveats, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says.
“New Zealand’s yes vote is fundamentally a signal of our strong support for international law and the need for a two-state solution,” Mr Peters says.
The resolution is here. These are some of the countries that didn’t vote for it as they say it as unbalanced:
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Denmark
- Georgia
- Germany
- India
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Poland
- South Korea
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
- UK
- US
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
3 comments:
As soon as i learnt of that vote I thought Peters has no right at all to make that decision on behalf of this country. Bad move, Winston!
It's a fact that Israel is illegally occupying territory and has been for years. It's not a matter of opinion. Either international law is valid, or it isn't.
On the one hand, David Farrah is an advocate for the self determination of the Ukrainiain people and the sanctity of territory, yet, because he's Jewish, he thinks those principles and the "rules based order" don't and shouldn't apply to his coethnics in Israel.
Israel is built on stolen territory and it obviously plans to steal even more in the coming years (in "self defence" though, of course).
Will we end up with a two state system, if so who will control the cheque book?
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