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<\/a>Riyad Mansour (C), the Palestinian permanent observer to the United Nations, looks back before the Security Council votes on a Palestinian-drafted resolution, at the UN headquarters in New York, on Dec. 30, 2014. (Xinhua\/Niu Xiaolei)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n The Arab coalition\u2019s bid calling for the creation of a Palestinian state and an end to Israeli \u201coccupation\u201d gathered only 8 votes in favour, so it was automatically defeated. The veto power US and Australia voted against the move with 5 abstentions.<\/p>\n Another veto power state, the UK, along with Lithuania, Nigeria, Korea and Rwanda have abstained from the vote.<\/p>\n Current Council President and \u00a0Chad\u2019s representative, Mahamat Zene Cherif said the Council had missed an opportunity give the Palestinians \u201ca ray of hope\u201d after direct talks yielded almost nothing.<\/p>\n US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said the proposed resolution was \u201cone-sided\u201d and failed to take into account Israel\u2019s legitimate security concerns.<\/p>\n Power’s comments were echoed by Australia\u2019s representative Gary Quinlan, who said the proposed text \u201clacks balance and seeks to impose a solution put forward by one party alone\u201d.<\/p>\n Eight of the Council\u2019s 15 members voted in favour, one fewer than the nine members needed to pass a resolution in the absence of a veto by any of the Council\u2019s five permanent members \u2013 China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom or the United States.<\/p>\n But even if the required nine UN votes were achieved, the US would have been able to use its veto power as a permanent member of the security council. China, Russia, Britain and France are the other veto-wielding permanent members, with Australia among the 10 non-permanent members.<\/p>\n The timing of the vote caught some by surprise, as some expected it would be delayed until the New Year and a change in the council membership as Australia and Rwanda are to complete their temporary two-year term in December, with incoming members New Zealand, Malaysia and Venezuela believed to be sympathetic to the Palestinian position.<\/p>\n UN Security Council vote on Palestinian draft resolution<\/strong> United Nations Security Council has failed to adopt a draft resolution demanding end of Israel’s occupation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[75,26,356,27,17],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-conflict","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-un"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/UN-security-council-e1446283967285.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-4l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYES:\u00a0<\/strong>Jordan,\u00a0China,\u00a0France,\u00a0Russia,\u00a0Luxembourg,\u00a0Chad,\u00a0Chile,\u00a0Argentina.
\nNO:\u00a0<\/strong>United States,\u00a0Australia.
\nABSTAINED:\u00a0<\/strong>United Kingdom,\u00a0Lithuania,\u00a0Nigeria,\u00a0South Korea,\u00a0Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"