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Israel/Palestine

bemildred

(90,061 posts) Mon Jun 13, 2016, 08:21 PM Jun 2016

UN Assembly Elects Israel as Committee Chair for First Time [View all]

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly has elected Israel to chair one of its six major committees for the first time, a decision denounced by the Palestinians and Arab nations.

In Monday's secret ballot election in the 193-member world body, Israel received 109 "yes" votes. Nobody voted against Israel but there were 23 abstentions, 14 invalid ballots, and 43 votes for other countries in the Western European and Others group which nominated Israel to chair the assembly committee dealing with legal issues.

Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon told reporters: "I am very proud to be the first Israeli to serve as the chairman of a committee."

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/06/13/world/middleeast/ap-un-united-nations-israel-election-victory.html

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UN Assembly Elects Israel as Committee Chair for First Time [View all] bemildred Jun 2016 OP

interesting, though it's hard to appreciate the significance without geek tragedy Jun 2016 #1

I think they just get tired of all the political posturing sometimes. bemildred Jun 2016 #2

the UN getting tired of political posturing is kind of like a bee hive getting tired of buzzing geek tragedy Jun 2016 #3

Well, OK then, you can't posture about everything at once, so maybe it was just bemildred Jun 2016 #4