PNN – “Robert Wood”, the ambassador and deputy representative of the United States to the United Nations, justified his country’s veto of the draft resolution for the establishment of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the fourth time and claimed: We cannot support an unconditional ceasefire without the release of the hostages.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, Robert Wood, ambassador and deputy representative of the Democratic government of the current US President Joe Biden to the United Nations, claimed on Wednesday local time at the Security Council meeting after voting against the draft resolution to establish an immediate ceasefire in Gaza: The United States of America deeply regrets that the Council is again at such a stage. America spent weeks trying in good faith to prevent this outcome.
He claimed: We made it clear during the negotiations that we could not support an unconditional cease-fire that did not release the hostages. As this council had previously called for, the release of the hostages must bring a lasting end to the war. These two immediate goals are inextricably linked.
This senior American diplomat claimed: This resolution sent a dangerous message to Hamas: there is no need to return to the negotiating table. Hamas saw it as confirmation of its cynical strategy and hoped that the international community would forget the fate of more than 100 hostages from more than 20 member states who have been held captive for 410 days.
Robert Wood continued: Let me be clear. Seven American citizens are still in the hands of Hamas. We will not forget them.
This American diplomat claimed: In turn, we will seek a diplomatic solution that will bring peace, security and freedom to the Palestinians in Gaza. Hamas has opposed all agreements.
The deputy representative of the United States in the United Nations continued his claims against Hamas and said: However, in their public statements, some members of this council ignore the ruthless opposition of Hamas and in fact refuse to condemn Hamas, which I note this resolution ignored.
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He claimed: It seems that some members of this council do not want to face the fact that today Israel is not in front of the ceasefire and the agreement to release the hostages. Hamas is against this agreement. Israel has announced that it is ready to establish a temporary ceasefire in exchange for the release of several hostages. And then, it continues until all the hostages are freed.
The American diplomat continued: More than 13 months have passed since October 7, some members of this council have forgotten that it was Hamas that started this conflict, and this was unacceptable. It is Hamas that killed millions of people. It has put Palestinian civilians at risk and brought the region to the brink of a wider war.
This American official said while Washington has fully supported the Israeli regime during the Gaza war by sending military, security and financial aid: We have made it clear that it is time for this war to end, for the hostages to be freed, and for Palestinian civilians to begin rebuilding their lives. It is vital that we end this war in a way that charts a path forward in the post-war era, to provide the government, security and reconstruction of Gaza.
He claimed: We must strive for a future in which Israelis and Palestinians can live together in two democratic countries and enjoy equal standards of security, dignity and freedom, where Israel is safe within its borders.
This American diplomat claimed in the end: An unconditional ceasefire with Hamas means that this council accepts the maintenance of Hamas power in Gaza. America will never accept this.
In the voting session on the draft of this resolution, 14 out of 15 members of the Security Council voted in favor of the proposed resolution. None of the members of the Security Council abstained from this resolution, but America vetoed it with its negative vote.
The 10 elected members of the Security Council, including the countries of Algeria, Ecuador, Japan, Mozambique, Malta, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Switzerland and Guyana, had submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council, which demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
The country of Guyana has requested the non-permanent members of the Security Council to turn the draft resolution of the Gaza ceasefire led by the 10 non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council into blue, and the voting should be done by Wednesday, November 20 at the latest.
This is the fourth time that the US has vetoed the draft ceasefire resolution in Gaza in support of the Israeli regime.
Israel’s attacks are not limited to the Gaza Strip, and the occupying regime of Jerusalem has expanded its belligerence in the West Bank, Lebanon and other Middle East regions with the full support of the United States and its allies.
Despite all these crimes, the occupying regime has admitted that entering the fourteenth month of the war, it has not yet been able to achieve its goals of this war, which is to destroy the Hamas movement and return its prisoners from the Gaza Strip.