Turkey ‘seeks UN Total Meeting vote’ on Jerusalem

Turkey is concentrating efforts on passing a resolution on the UN Total Meeting towards the US decision to recognise occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Ankara is main the push in the Total Meeting due to a draft resolution to be voted on by the UN Safety Council on Monday is predicted to be vetoed by Washington, Turkish officials told Al Jazeera.

The United States is if truth be told one of many five veto-keeping everlasting participants of the tip UN physique with 15 participants.

Following Monday’s Safety Council session, Turkey, Palestine and other parties are anticipated to save loads of a examine to push the problem to the UN Total Meeting, where all 193 participants of the enviornment organisation are represented.

President Donald Trump on December 6 launched the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, deviating from a long time-passe coverage and the enviornment consensus that the metropolis’s net site must be resolved through peace talks.

The UN Safety Council draft resolution drafted by Egypt, and viewed by Al Jazeera, « affirms that any choices and actions which purport to bask in altered, the personality, net site or demographic composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem don’t bask in any licensed attain, are null and void and must be rescinded in compliance with relevant resolutions of the Safety Council. »

« In this regard [the draft resolution] calls upon all states to refrain from the institution of diplomatic missions in the Holy City of Jerusalem, » it acknowledged. 

‘Uniting for Peace’

Turkish international ministry sources, who requested to remain anonymous, told Al Jazeera that because it used to make certain the draft resolution will possible be vetoed by the US on the UN Safety Council, Turkey used to be concentrating efforts [against the US move] on the UN Total Meeting. 

The deliver is predicted to be taken to the UN Total Meeting under Resolution 377A, is known as the « Uniting for Peace » resolution, Turkish sources acknowledged.

The 1950 Resolution 377A says if the Safety Council fails to exercise its necessary accountability for the maintenance of world peace and security, the Total Meeting shall bask in in mind the matter without lengthen.

« The resolution might perchance presumably well perchance additionally be handed by getting now not now not as much as two-thirds of the votes of the participants of the UN Total Meeting. We already bask in this quantity, nonetheless Turkey, as properly as the opposite OIC participants, are working strong to expand it, » the international ministry sources acknowledged. 

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) founded in 1969, bills itself as « the collective remark of the Muslim world ».

Turkey has been highly vocal in criticising the US administration over its Jerusalem decision, main calls finally week’s 57-member OIC summit in Istanbul final week to recognise East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.

‘Likely to seem at take care of 2012 vote’

Taha Ozhan, a ruling celebration MP and chair of the Turkish parliament’s international affairs commission, told Al Jazeera that Ankara’s efforts towards Trump’s transfer keep apart tension on the countries in the impartial to communicate up on the problem. 

« Turkey has triggered this, and regional actors are reacting, » he acknowledged.

« A imaginable vote in the Total Meeting will remind us of the scenes we seen just a few years ago in the vote there for Palestine to be a non-member observer reveal, in which most attention-grabbing the US, Israel and few more countries voted towards the transfer, dominated by the leisure of the participants. »

Within the 2012 vote on the Total Meeting, Palestine used to be given non-member observer net site with 138 votes solid for the resolution and nine votes towards it. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged on Sunday that Ankara supposed to begin an embassy for Palestine in East Jerusalem.

« On condition that Jerusalem is under occupation, we cannot appropriate crawl and begin an embassy there. On the opposite hand, our consulate standard in Jerusalem is already represented by an envoy … The day is shut when officially, with God’s permission, we can begin our embassy there, » he acknowledged, in an take care of in the southern province of Karaman.

Palestinians observe East Jerusalem, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967, as the capital of their future reveal while Israelis peep the metropolis as a total as their capital.

1000’s of Turkish protesters marched in varied parts of the country during the weekend, carrying anti-US and anti-Israel indicators and shouting slogans towards the two countries.

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