Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Tuesday decried the United States’s decision to abstain from a vote on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. “The Biden administration abstaining from the UN ceasefire vote is deeply offensive and strategically stupid,” Cotton said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.…
The Finnish government announced last week it is considering abstaining from voting on the long-discussed EU directive on corporate responsibility. The announcement has drawn criticism from not only non-governmental organisations, but also from some companies, reports Helsingin Sanomat.
Who said what and why? What does the overwhelming vote against the Israeli action amount to? And what is the message that India is seeking to convey to the international community, the Israelis, and the Palestinians?
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