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Why did the U.S. veto previous U.N. ceasefire resolutions? The U.S. vetoed a Security Council resolution in February that demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel.
[19] [20] She further demanded of the Security Council to link the release of all hostages to any ceasefire, characterizing the resolution as "non-binding". [5] The US State Department noted that the US abstention did not indicate a change in US policy, and also stated that the US saw the ceasefire resolution as nonbinding. [21]
In June, the Security Council approved a US-backed ceasefire plan to end the war. Fourteen of the 15 members voted in favor, with only Russia abstaining – the first time the UNSC had endorsed ...
President Biden initially rejected calls for a ceasefire, saying, "As long as Hamas clings to its ideology of destruction, a cease-fire is not peace." [3] Biden instead called for "humanitarian pauses." [4] Eventually he called for temporary ceasefires in February 2024, [5] and then an end to the war by May 2024. [6]
The 15-member council voted on a resolution put forward by 10 non-permanent members that called for an "immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" in the 13-month conflict and separately ...
On Monday 12 September 2016 at 7 p.m. Syria time (1600 GMT), a U.S. and Russian brokered ceasefire, which was intended to last one week, had come into effect. [11] The ceasefire had been the result of months of "intensive diplomacy," primarily between the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, but also between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian ...
The Algerian-drafted resolution vetoed by the U.S. did not link a ceasefire to the release of hostages. It separately demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the immediate and ...