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United Nations Resolution
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U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution Condemning Israel for Hamas Killing
By WARREN HOGE
Published: March 26, 2004
UNITED NATIONS, March 25 — The United States vetoed a Security Council resolution Thursday night condemning Israel for killing the Hamas leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, because it did not denounce killings of Israelis by Hamas.
The United States ambassador, John D. Negroponte, told the Council that while the United States was "deeply troubled" by the killing of Sheik Yassin and believed Israel's action had escalated tensions in the region, it could not support the resolution "because it is silent about the terrorist atrocities committed by Hamas, because it does not reflect the realities of the conflict in the Middle East and because it will not further the goals of peace and security in the region."
The resolution was a version of a measure that had been under negotiation for two days and sought to provide balance by condemning "all terrorist attacks against any civilians as well as all acts of violence and destruction." Algeria, which sponsored the motion, balked at demands that Hamas and Israeli victims of terror be mentioned.
Three countries abstained — Britain, Germany and Romania — while 11 — China, France, Russia, Angola, Chile, Pakistan, Spain, Algeria, Benin, Brazil and the Philippines, — were in favor of the resolution.
The Algerian ambassador, Abdallah Baali, said that the Council vote "is not sending the right message to the world, which has unanimously condemned this crime." Most of the 41 nations that addressed a Security Council debate on Tuesday condemned Israel, and on Wednesday the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva passed a resolution denouncing "targeted assassinations" by Israel.
Mr. Baali said that he would have to meet with other Arab envoys to decide whether they would move for a vote in the 191-member General Assembly, a path they have followed in the past when such measures have failed to pass the Security Council.
Unlike Security Council resolutions, those passed in the General Assembly are nonbinding and largely symbolic. But they generally attract widespread support when Israel is the target. In December, a resolution protesting the construction of the barrier Israel is building in the West Bank, vetoed in the Security Council, was approved in the General Assembly in a 90-to-8 vote, with 74 abstentions.
Dan Gillerman, the Israeli ambassador, and Nasser al-Kidwa, the Palestinian observer to the United Nations, traded angry charges on Thursday. Defending Israel's strike on Sheik Yassin, Mr. Gillerman directed a comment to Inocencio F. Arias, the ambassador from Spain, where 190 people were killed in a terror attack two weeks ago.
"If you knew before the bloody massacre of your citizens who was going to carry out this horrendous act," he asked, "would you have stood still and let this happen?"
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I know its old news but what really irks me about this article is that United Nations made a resolution condemning the attack against Hamas. I mean, Hamas is a terrorist organization and UN condemns attacks made to eliminate the head of the organization? I don't see United Nations bitching about United States attacking Bin Laden...
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