{"id":8416,"date":"2023-12-19T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T08:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8416"},"modified":"2023-12-19T08:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T08:30:40","slug":"unsc-struggles-for-voting-on-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/unsc-struggles-for-voting-on-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"UNSC Struggles for Voting on Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UN Security Council is struggling to speak with one voice ahead of a vote expected on Tuesday on a new resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.<br \/>\nA vote may come as soon as Tuesday morning if negotiations succeed in breaking an impasse 10 days after a US veto.<br \/>\nLast week, the General Assembly adopted the same non-binding resolution by 153 votes to 10, with 23 abstentions, out of 193 member states.<br \/>\nOn the strength of this overwhelming support, Arab countries have announced a new attempt at the Security Council, with an uncertain outcome.<br \/>\nA draft text prepared by the UAE, obtained by AFP on Sunday, called for \u201can urgent and lasting cessation of hostilities to allow unimpeded access of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.\u201d<br \/>\nThe postponement of the vote until Tuesday \u201cmeans that there are negotiations over the text &#8212; most probably to avoid another or several vetoes,\u201d Amnesty International\u2019s Secretary General Agnes Callamard posted on X.<br \/>\nIn a letter sent on Monday to the president of the Security Council, seen by AFP, Antonio Guterres mentions three options for implementing the November 15 resolution calling for humanitarian \u201cpauses\u201d of a few days to allow aid into the Palestinian territory.<br \/>\nNoting that \u201cthe conditions for the effective delivery of humanitarian aid no longer exist,\u201d the secretary general\u2019s first option is to reinforce the presence of UN humanitarian personnel on the ground to enable a \u201cmore robust United Nations presence on the ground.\u201d<br \/>\nSecondly, he suggests a mission of UN or third-party civilian observers.<br \/>\nAnd finally, to monitor the observance of \u201chumanitarian pauses\/ceasefires, United Nations unarmed military observers could be deployed,\u201d he wrote, noting that all three options would require \u201cclear mandates\u201d from the Security Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed The UN Security Council is struggling to speak with one voice ahead of a vote expected on Tuesday on a new resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. A vote may come as soon as Tuesday morning if negotiations succeed in breaking an impasse 10 days after a US veto. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8418,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions\/8418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}