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U.S. Reiterates Opposition to One-Sided UN Security Council Action Against Israel
(Jerusalem Post-U.S. State Department) Michael Wilner and Herb Keinon - State Department spokesman Mark Toner, asked Tuesday about possible U.S. support for UN Security Council action on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, replied, "I can firmly shut that door....Our position hasn't changed in terms of action on this issue at the UN Security Council...[and the U.S. is] opposed to it." Edgar Vasquez, an official at the U.S. Mission to the UN, told the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday: "We continue to oppose one-sided resolutions that delegitimize Israel or undermine its security." Last week a bipartisan group of congressmen sent a letter to President Obama urging him "to continue to insist that it is only at the negotiating table - and not at the UN - that the parties can resolve their complicated differences. Your continued commitment to longstanding U.S. policy to veto one-sided UN Security Council resolutions remains fundamentally critical."