GENEVA, January 22 – The U.N. General Assembly’s current 2014-2015 session has adopted a total of 20 resolutions singling out Israel for criticism — and only 3 resolutions on the rest of the world combined. See the texts and votes below.
The three that do not concern Israel are: one on Syria, a regime that has murdered more than 200,000 of its own people, one on Iran, and one on North Korea.
Not a single UNGA resolution this year (69th session) is expected to be adopted on gross and systematic abuses committed by China, Cuba, Egypt, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Yemen, Zimbabwe, nor on dozens of other perpetrators of human rights violations.
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2014-2015 UNGA Resolutions (69th Session)
Condemning Countries
Part I: Resolutions on 192 UN Member States
(all UN member states other than Israel)
1. Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (A/RES/69/190)
Vote: 83 Yes, 35 No, 68 Abstain
Extract: “Expresses deep concern at serious ongoing and recurring human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran…”
2. Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (A/RES/69/189)
Vote: 127 Yes, 13 No, 48 Abstain
Extract: “Deplores and condemns in the strongest terms the continued armed violence by the Syrian authorities against the Syrian people…”
3. Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (A/RES/69/188)
Vote: 116 Yes, 20 No, 53 Abstain
Extract: “Condemns the long-standing and ongoing systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea..”
Part II: 20 Resolutions Singling Out Israel
FIRST COMMITTEE
The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East (A/RES/69/78)
Committee Vote: 151 Yes, 4 No (Canada, Micronesia, Israel, United States), 20 Abstain
Plenary Vote: 161 Yes, 5 No (Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Palau, United States), 18 Abstain
Extract: “Reaffirms the importance of Israel’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and placement of all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, in realizing the goal of universal adherence to the Treaty in the Middle East.”
SECOND COMMITTEE
Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources (A/C.2/69/L.33*)
Committee Vote: 153 Yes, 5 No, 8 Abstain
Plenary Vote: 165 Yes, 6 No, 9 Abstain
Extract: “Expressing its concern about the exploitation by Israel, the occupying Power, of the natural resources of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967.”
Oil slick on Lebanese shores (A/C.2/69/L.21*)
Committee Vote: 155 Yes, 6 No (Australia, Canada, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, United States), 5 Abstain (Cameroon, Colombia, Central African Republic, Chad, Papua New Guinea)
Plenary Vote: 170 Yes, 6 No, 3 Abstain
Extract: “Reiterates…its deep concern about the adverse implications of the destruction by the Israeli Air Force of the oil storage tanks in the direct vicinity of the Lebanese Jiyeh electric power plant, for the achievement of sustainable development in Lebanon.”
THIRD COMMITTEE
The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination (A/C.3/69/L.58* )
Committee Vote: 170 Yes, 7 No (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, United States, Nauru, Palau) , 6 Abstain (Cameroon, Kiribati, Paraguay, Rwanda, Central African Republic, South Sudan)
Plenary Vote: 180 Yes, 7 No, 4 Abstain
Extract: “Recalling the conclusion of the Court…that the construction of the wall by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, along with measures previously taken, severely impedes the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.”
FOURTH COMMITTEE
Assistance to Palestine refugees (A/RES/69/86)
Committee Vote: 165 Yes, 1 No (Israel), 9 Abstain
Plenary Vote: 163 Yes, 1 No (Israel), 10 Abstain (Cameroon, Canada, Micronesia, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Palau, Paraguay, South Sudan, United States, Vanuatu)
Extract: “Expressing grave concern at the especially difficult situation of the Palestine refugees under occupation, including with regard to their safety, well-being and socioeconomic living conditions.”
Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities (A/RES/69/87)
Committee Vote: 161 Yes, 7 No (Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau and United States), 4 Abstain (Cameroon, Cote D’Ivoire, Paraguay, Vanuatu)
Plenary Vote: 165 Yes, 7 No (Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, United States), 6 Abstain (Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Paraguay, South Sudan, Vanuatu)
Extract: “Reaffirms the right of all persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities to return to their home or former places of residence in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967.”
Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (A/RES/69/88)
Committee Vote: 164 Yes, 6 No (Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau, United States), 4 Abstain (Cameroon, Cote D’Ivoire, Paraguay, Vanuatu)
Plenary Vote: 166 Yes, 6 No (Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau, United States), 6 Abstain (Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Paraguay, South Sudan, Vanuatu)
Extract: “Gravely concerned about the extremely difficult socioeconomic conditions being faced by the Palestine refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, particularly in the refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, as a result of the recurrent military operations, continuing prolonged Israeli closures, the construction of settlements and the wall, and the severe economic and movement restrictions that in effect amount to a blockade…”
Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues (A/RES/69/89)
Committee Vote: 165 Yes, 7 No (Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, United States), 4 Abstain (Cameroon, Cote D’Ivoire, Paraguay, Vanuatu)
Plenary Vote: 165 Yes, 7 No (Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, United States), 6 Abstain (Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Paraguay, South Sudan, Vanuatu)
Extract: “Reaffirms that the Palestine refugees are entitled to their property and to the income derived there from, in conformity with the principles of equity and justice.”
Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (A/RES/69/90)
Committee Vote: 90 Yes, 9 No (Australia, Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Panama, United States), 75 Abstain
Plenary Vote: 88 Yes, 9 No (Australia, Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Panama, United States), 79 Abstain
Extract: “Deplores those policies and practices of Israel that violate the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories…”
Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories (A/RES/69/91)
Committee Vote: 166 Yes, 6 No (Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau, United States), 6 Abstain (Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Paraguay, South Sudan, Vanuatu).
Plenary Vote: 163 Yes, 7 No (Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, United States), 9 Abstain (Australia, Cameroon, Côte D’Ivoire, Madagascar, Paraguay, Rwanda, South Sudan, Togo, Vanuatu)
Extract: “Demands that Israel accept the de jure applicability of the Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, and that it comply scrupulously with the provisions of the Convention.”
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan (A/RES/69/92)
Committee Vote: 157 Yes, 7 No (Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau and United States), 11 Abstain
Plenary Vote: 159 Yes, 7 No (Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall islands, Nauru, Palau, United States), 12 Abstain
Extract: “Reaffirms that the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan are illegal and an obstacle to peace and economic and social development.”
Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (A/RES/69/93)
Committee Vote: 155 Yes, 8 No (Australia, Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, United States), 11 Abstain
Plenary Vote: 158 Yes, 8 No (Australia, Canada, Micronesia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, United States), 11 Abstain
Extract: “Expressing grave concern about the continuing systematic violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people by Israel, the occupying Power…”
The occupied Syrian Golan (A/RES/69/94)
Committee Vote: 158 Yes, 1 No (Israel), 16 Abstain
Plenary Vote: 162 Yes, 1 No (Israel), 15 Abstain
Extract: “Deeply concerned that the Syrian Golan, occupied since 1967, has been under continued Israeli military occupation.”
PLENARY
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (A/RES/69/20)
Vote: 94 Yes, 7 No, 56 Abstain
Extract: “Requests the Committee to continue to exert all efforts to promote the realization of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to self-determination, to support the achievement without delay of an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967 and of the two-State solution on the basis of the pre-1967 borders…”
Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat (A/RES/69/21)
Vote: 91 Yes, 7 No, 59 Abstain
Extract: “Considers that, by providing substantive support to the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in the implementation of its mandate, the Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat continues to make a most useful and constructive contribution to raising international awareness of the question of Palestine…”
Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat (A/RES/69/22)
Vote: 147 Yes, 7 No, 9 Abstain
Extract: “Considers that the special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department is very useful in raising the awareness of the international community concerning the question of Palestine…”
Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine (A/RES/69/23)
Vote: 148 yes, 6 No, 8 Abstain
Extract: “Expressing grave concern about the extremely detrimental impact of Israeli settlement policies, decisions and activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, including on the contiguity, integrity and viability of the Territory …”
Jerusalem (A/RES/69/24)
Vote: 144 Yes, 6 No, 10 Abstain
Extract: “Reiterates its determination that any actions taken by Israel, the Occupying Power, to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the Holy City of Jerusalem are illegal and therefore null and void and have no validity whatsoever, and calls upon Israel to immediately cease all such illegal and unilateral measures.”
The Syrian Golan (A/RES/69/25)
Vote: 99 Yes, 6 No, 57 Abstain
Extract: “Determines once more that the continued occupation of the Syrian Golan and its de facto annexation constitute a stumbling block in the way of achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region.”
Assistance to the Palestinian people (A/RES/69/L.38)
Vote: without a vote
Extract: “Gravely concerned at the difficult living conditions and humanitarian situation affecting the Palestinian people, in particular women and children, throughout the occupied Palestinian territory… ”
