The Arab bloc here was expected Thursday to introduce a Security Council resolution to send a three-member U.N. delegation to investigate the ” deteriorating situation” in the Israeli-administered territories and East Jerusalem.
The Security Council was scheduled to begin informal consultations on the resolution late Thursday afternoon, and sources here said a vote could take place as early as that evening.
There were early indications that the United States might veto the resolution, which calls for a delegation of three members of the Security of Israel, the occupying power” and to report back to the council by June 20.
Ambassador Jochanan Bein, Israel’s acting representative here, said his country expected the United States to veto the resolution.
A spokesperson at the U.S. Mission here declined to say how the United States would vote on the resolution, but the spokesperson pointed to remarks made Sunday by Secretary of State James Baker.
Baker told the CBS-TV news program “Face the Nation” that the United States would prefer “an investigative mission sent by the secretary general of the United Nations to go check on the situation in the territories and report back.”
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