Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan criticize the US “veto” granting Palestine full membership in the UN

The Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations, Amar Benjama, confirmed that his country would return vigorously to the issue of Palestine’s full membership in the United Nations Security Council, after the United States used the veto to block a draft resolution submitted by Algeria in that regard to the Security Council yesterday.

Benjama was quoted by Algerian media as saying in a speech after the US veto: “we will return stronger and more vociferous with the support of the legitimacy of the General Assembly and the broader support of the UN membership … This is just another step in the journey towards full membership of Palestine.”

Saudi Arabia expressed regret over the failure of the Security Council to adopt the draft resolution and stressed in a statement by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs quoted by the WASS News Agency that “hindering the admission of the full membership of the state of Palestine to the United Nations contributes to the perpetuating the intransigence of the Israeli occupation and its continued violations of the rules of international law without deterrence and will not bring the desired peace closer”.

Egypt, for its part, expressed its deep regret following the inability of the Security Council to pass the resolution as a result of the use of the United States “veto,” stressing that “recognition of the Palestinian state and the confirmation of its full membership is an inherent right of the Palestinian people who have suffered from the Israeli occupation for more than 70 years, and an important step on the path of implementing the provisions of international law and resolutions of international legitimacy and preserving the legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people.

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement, deeply regretted the United States’ obstruction of the passage of the draft resolution, noting that the international community supported the two-State solution undermined by the Israeli occupation entity, which made recognition of the Palestinian State a duty of the Security Council to prevent the occupying authorities from continuing to deny the Palestinian people their right to freedom and State.

The Organization of the Islamic Cooperaion (OIC), for its part, considered that the use of the United States veto violates the provisions of the UN Charter, which allows membership to all countries that accept the obligations contained therein, and prevents the Palestinian people from gaining their legitimate rights, thereby prolonging the historical injustice against the Palestinian people 75 years ago.

The organization stressed the legitimate right of the state of Palestine to embody its political and legal status in the United Nations, like the rest of the world, as a privilege that must be implemented for decades, based on the political, legal, historical and natural rights of the Palestinian people in their land, confirmed by the relevant United Nations resolutions.

Amal Farhat