India votes in favor of UNGA resolution on Palestine calling for an end to Israeli occupation
The Hindu
India supports UNGA resolutions for Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territory and Syrian Golan, emphasising peace and justice in West Asia.
India voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly [UNGA] resolution that called for the withdrawal of Israel from the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, and reiterated the call for achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in West Asia.
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The draft resolution ‘Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine’ tabled by Senegal was overwhelmingly adopted in the 193-member General Assembly on Tuesday (December 3, 2024).
India was among the 157 nations that voted in favour, while eight Member States - Argentina, Hungary, Israel, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea and the United States voted against it.
Cameroon, Czechia, Ecuador, Georgia, Paraguay, Ukraine and Uruguay abstained.
The resolution, adopted as orally revised, reiterated its call for the “Achievement, without delay, of a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East [West Asia]” based on the relevant U.N. resolutions and an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967, including of East Jerusalem.
The resolution called for the “withdrawal of Israel from the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem” and for the realisation of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, primarily the right to self-determination and the right to their independent State.
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