Friday, 20 November 2009
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Government of Fiji Abstain to Vote at UN with our new "Family" again
The following information was released by the United Nations:
The General Assembly, gravely concerned by reports of serious human rights violations and grave breaches of international humanitarian law committed during the military operations in the Gaza Strip between December 2008 and January 2009, including the findings of the Secretary-General's Board of Inquiry and the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza conflict, would stress the need for "serious follow-up" by all parties of the recommendations addressed to them, by one of 11 draft texts approved today by the Fourth Committee as it concluded its work for the session.
By a recorded vote of 160 in favour to 9 against (Australia, Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Panama, United States), with 5 abstentions (Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Fiji, Republic of Korea, Liberia), that text would have the Assembly demand that Israel, the occupying Power, cease all practices and actions that violated the human rights of the Palestinian people, including the killing and injury of civilians, and that it respect human rights law and comply with its legal obligations in that regard.
A further term of the text would have the Assembly express grave concern at the firing of rockets against Israeli civilian areas resulting in loss of life and injury.
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