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Sat, 01/17/2009 - 16:41
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RI OPTIMISTIC UN WILL CONDEMN ISRAEL
Jakarta, Jan 16 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government is optimistic that the emergency meeting of the UN Security Council would issue a resolution criticizing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip in Palestine.
"Indonesia is optimistic that the UNSC's Emergency Session will issue a resolution even though it is forced to take a decision through a voting," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said here on Friday.
He said that Indonesia and other members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) had agreed to support the issuance of the resolution.
Thus, it is quite possible that those who support the resolution would gain the majority of votes of the 192 UN member countries.
"Indonesia and other members of the NAM and OIC have united their stance so that if there is a voting we will win the majority of votes," Faizasyah said.
He said that up to Friday noon, there have been 92 countries, including Indonesia, which had expressed their attitude with regard to the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
The foreign ministry spokesman said that even though the UN resolution issued in the emergency meeting would not be binding, yet it would exert pressures on Israel to stop its aggression which had claimed the lives of more than 1,000 Palestinians.
He said that the Indonesian government initiated the UN emergency meeting recently when it saw the failure of the UNSC to agree on a resolution on the Israeli onslaught against Palestine.
A health ministry report said that the war which had been going on for three weeks had killed 1,105 Palestinians and injured 15,000 others.
Palestinian officials said that the attacks had also caused a loss of US$1.4 billion.
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said that about 26,000 people in the Gaza Strip could not stay in their houses and were now being accommodated at emergency camps.
It said that about 20,000 buildings were destroyed by the Israeli attacks which started on December 27, 2008.***1***
"Indonesia is optimistic that the UNSC's Emergency Session will issue a resolution even though it is forced to take a decision through a voting," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said here on Friday.
He said that Indonesia and other members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) had agreed to support the issuance of the resolution.
Thus, it is quite possible that those who support the resolution would gain the majority of votes of the 192 UN member countries.
"Indonesia and other members of the NAM and OIC have united their stance so that if there is a voting we will win the majority of votes," Faizasyah said.
He said that up to Friday noon, there have been 92 countries, including Indonesia, which had expressed their attitude with regard to the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
The foreign ministry spokesman said that even though the UN resolution issued in the emergency meeting would not be binding, yet it would exert pressures on Israel to stop its aggression which had claimed the lives of more than 1,000 Palestinians.
He said that the Indonesian government initiated the UN emergency meeting recently when it saw the failure of the UNSC to agree on a resolution on the Israeli onslaught against Palestine.
A health ministry report said that the war which had been going on for three weeks had killed 1,105 Palestinians and injured 15,000 others.
Palestinian officials said that the attacks had also caused a loss of US$1.4 billion.
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said that about 26,000 people in the Gaza Strip could not stay in their houses and were now being accommodated at emergency camps.
It said that about 20,000 buildings were destroyed by the Israeli attacks which started on December 27, 2008.***1***
