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Us veto un anti fence resolution Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1066113924140&p=1008596981749 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1066113924140&p=1008596981749 US veto UN anti-fence resolution Melissa Radler Oct. 15, 2003 The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution Tuesday night that would have condemned Israel's security fence as illegal and demanded that it be taken down. The US, which holds one of five vetoes in the 15-member council, voted against the resolution after Syria, which introduced the draft last Friday, refused to consider an alternative US text that called for the dismantling of terrorist groups. Four council members, Britain, Bulgaria, Cameroon and Germany and Britain, abstained from the vote and the remaining 10 members, Angola, Chile, China, France, Guinea, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, Spain and Syria, supported the draft resolution. "We do not believe a Security Council resolution focused on the fence furthers the goals of peace and security in the region," US Ambassador to the UN John Negroponte said prior to the vote. He added that while the Bush administration has concerns over the fence, it is "engaging directly" with Israel on the issue. At a six-hour, open debate on the Middle East that preceded the vote, dozens of speakers criticized the fence as a war crime, an Israeli plot to expand its borders, and a "racist colonial wall." While many states condemned the Palestinian terrorist attacks that Israeli says it is trying to stop in building the fence, most ambassadors accused Israel of over-reacting to the threat of terror and using disproportionate force to halt attacks. Several ambassadors said they wouldn't have objected so vociferously to the fence if the plan were to build along the border between Israel and the West Bank, or within Israeli territory. While Palestinian permanent observer Nasser al-Kidwa called the fence "the biggest war crime of its kind in our contemporary history," Israel's Ambassador Dan Gillerman argued that the fence, when completed, will benefit Palestinians by enabling the IDF to reduce its presence in the West Bank. Gillerman also criticized the council for considering a resolution concerned solely with the fence just 10 days after 20 Israelis were killed in a suicide bombing in Haifa. "In a pattern that is as familiar as it is distasteful, we have gathered for yet another meeting of this council, called to censure Israel for its measures to prevent terrorism, rather than address the terrorism itself," he said. "Members might pause to consider what message is sent to the citizens of the world by this kind of council activity." Copyright 1995-2003 The Jerusalem Post - http://www.jpost.com/

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