Kesher Talk

Look! In the sky! Pigs! Well, well! Look what the EU did. The PLO finally "crossed a red line" of theirs.

Early this week the PLO delegation to the UN distributed a draft resolution that said: "The PLO representative in the UN is the representative of the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including East Jerusalem." The resolution was meant to be voted on in the General Assembly on Wednesday, in a routine affirmation of the credentials of countries represented in the UN.

But the EU was vehemently opposed to the resolution, regarding it as an attempt to undermine Israel's legitimacy. EU representatives met with PLO Ambassador Nasser al-Kidwa, telling him that exploiting the routine votes on country credentials crossed "a red line."

UN sources said that as a result of a direct appeal to France, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin ordered the French delegation to join the rest of the EU countries to oppose the PLO legation's resolution.

So they had to nudge France to fall in line. Figures.

posted by Judith @ 12/19/2003 02:48:00 PM