RI Hopes That There Will Be No More UN DK Members Veto Resolutions About Gaza

Screenshot - Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi delivered an online press statement from Tunis, Tunisia, on Thursday (21/12/2023). (ANTARA/Yashinta Difa)

JAKARTA - Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi hopes that there will be no more members of the United Nations Security Council (DK PBB) who have vetoed a draft resolution on the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The conflict between Israel and Palestine in Gaza was discussed in three separate meetings, each with Tunisian Foreign Minister Nabil Ammar, Tunisian President Kais Saied, and Tunisian Prime Minister Ahmed Hachani in Tunis on Thursday (21/12).

Retno said Indonesia and Tunisia agreed to continue working together to defend justice and humanity for the Palestinian people.

"We also hope that the UN Security Council can immediately adopt Resolution in New York in the near future," he said when delivering an online press statement regarding his visit to Tunisia., said Retno, asserting.

Foreign Minister Retno said she was closely following the negotiations carried out in New York and continued to communicate with the Indonesian Ambassador to the United Nations in New York.

"The longer the UN Security Council cannot make decisions, the more civilian people in Gaza suffer," he said.

Retno again emphasized the importance of an immediate ceasefire, given the increasing number of civilians killed in Gaza and in the West Bank.

Israel's cruelty must be stopped. Ceasefire is indispensable. Without a ceasefire, it will be difficult to provide sufficient humanitarian assistance, which is more predictable and sustainable," he said.

He then emphasized that even in the war there are rules and laws that must be respected.

Indonesia will not stop defending justice and humanity for the Palestinian people. And Tunisia has the same view," he said.

The United States presidential office, the White House, on Thursday said a number of negotiators were "actively working" with international partners at the DKPBB so that resolutions could be ratified to contain the humanitarian disasters that are currently taking place in Gaza.

The draft resolution contains calls for an "immediate cessation" of hostilities in the surrounded coastal enclave to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid. However, the vote on the resolution has been delayed on the board for more than a week.

The US has used veto rights to result in two previous designs, which demanded a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, were not successfully passed by UN DK.

US President Joe Biden continues to oppose the ceasefire, saying the move would only benefit Palestinian Hamas fighters.

The US, which is a permanent member, UN DK, issued its final veto of a resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire on December 8.

The UN General Assembly, which is a forum in which the US does not have veto rights, then quickly discussed the matter four days later. In the forum, most of the UN General Assembly member countries support this non-binding resolution.

One of the important points in the draft resolution under consideration at the Security Council is the establishment of a UN mechanism to monitor aid deliveries, and whether the mechanism should be independent of Israel and Hamas.