The declaration is not “a step toward peace,” stated Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. It is “another hollow gesture that weakens this assembly’s credibility.”
The U.N. General Assembly voted on Sept. 12 to adopt the so-called New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine, which outlines the implementation of a two-state solution and the path towards recognition of a Palestinian state.
The margin of the vote was 142-10, with 12 abstentions. Israel and the United States opposed the measure, as did Argentina, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay and Tonga.
“This one-sided declaration will not be remembered as a step toward peace, only as another hollow gesture that weakens this assembly’s credibility,” stated Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.