A resolution opposing moves by the U.S. Congress to close the United Nations observer mission of the Palestine Liberation Organization was approved by the General Assembly’s legal committee Friday by 100 votes.
The sole negative vote was Israel’s. The United States did not vote.
The resolution now goes to the entire General Assembly, where it is also expected to be adopted overwhelmingly.
The resolution states that the PLO was invited by the assembly in 1974 to take part in U.N. activities and should therefore be allowed to keep a mission here and have its personnel enter and stay in the United States.
The resolution called on the United States, as the host country, to abide by obligations it agreed to in the U.N. charter and to refrain from any action that would prevent the PLO observer mission from carrying out its functions.
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