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| 12.21.17

Haley Threatens That President Trump Will Be Watching When U.N. Votes On Jerusalem Resolution Thursday

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Updated December 21, 2017: UN Ambassador Nikki Haley turned to Twitter to document the vote tally for the resolution condemning recent U.S. policy changes regarding Jerusalem:

The Guardian offered a more nuanced tally of the resolution vote. 128 nations, including Turkey, Yemen and Egypt, voted in support of the resolution. 9 nations voted against the resolution, including the U.S. and Israel, and 35 nations abstained. They did not account for the other 21 nations in the 193-nation body that Haley is claiming as supporters of the United States.

What’s the story?

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has called an emergency meeting on Thursday — only the tenth since the UN first convened in 1950, reports Bloomberg. On the agenda for the emergency meeting is a resolution criticizing the United States decision to formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv.

UN Ambassador Nikki Haley vetoed a Security Council resolution on Monday asking countries not to establish diplomatic missions in Jerusalem. It is the first U.S. veto cast in the Security Council in six years.

No country has veto power in the General Assembly, and the resolution being considered Thursday is expected to pass with a wide margin despite a letter sent to several countries by Haley threatening that President Trump would be "watching" the votes and would take any votes criticizing the U.S. “personally”.

Fox News shared highlights of Haley’s message on Twitter:

At a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday President Trump praised Haley’s message:

"I liked the message that Nikki sent yesterday at the United Nations to all of those nations that take our money and then they vote against us in the Security Council, they vote against us potentially at the assembly. They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us. Well we’re watching those votes. Let ’em vote against us."

He also threatened to withdraw aid from any nations that voted for the resolution on Thursday.

What do you think?

Are you with the president and Ambassador Haley on this one, or do you support the UN General Assembly resolution? Do you think the way Ambassador Haley is communicating with our allies in the UN about this is right or wrong?

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— Asha Sanaker

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