A total of 172 countries voted in favor of the resolution, while only seven countries - Israel, the United States, Micronesia, Argentina, Paraguay and Papua New Guinea - opposed it: Eight countries abstained, including Ecuador, Liberia, Togo, Tonga, Panama, Palau, Tuvalu and Kiribati.

At the United Nations General Assembly meeting on the abolition of unilateral coercive economic and extraterritorial measures as a political expression, on Thursday local time, Reza Najafi, the deputy of legal and international affairs in the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expressed the negative effects of illegal sanctions on human rights and ...

“Ceasefire now. Stop the Genocide,” he appealed to the member states.

Hundreds of Israelis, Jews and peace activists participated in the demonstrations, which have continued since the first day of Netanyahu’s arrival in the US to participate in the work of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly.