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Sunday 05 Jul 2015 - 12:52 Makkah mean time-18-9-1436
Palestinian FM Riyad al-Maliki
Ramallah (IINA) – Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki welcomed the adoption of a UN resolution on holding accountable all those who committed serious human rights violations and grave breaches of international law during Israeli onslaught on Gaza last summer.
Al-Maliki said in a press statement following the vote for the resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that the resolution “reflects a strong support by the international community at large for accountability.”
He stressed that “there is no path to justice and peace without accountability,” adding: “We will not accept that the repeated crimes against our people go unpunished.”
The UN rights body on Friday passed with an overwhelming majority a resolution on ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem.
The resolution welcomed the report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Gaza conflict which found that serious human rights violations and grave breaches of international humanitarian law were committed in the context of the Israeli military operations in the summer of 2014, including possible war crimes.
The Palestinian minister thanked the countries that voted in favor of the resolution for their principled stance to uphold universal values.
It is to be noted that 41 countries voted in favor of the resolution, while one country – the U.S. – voted against, and five abstained.
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