KABUL (Pajhwok): The Unites States blocked the United Nations from adopting a resolution to support a status that Palestinians had long sought at the world’s body.
The United Nations Security Council met in New York on Thursday to address issues in the Middle East, including the Palestinian bid for statehood.
The US move quashed an effort by Palestinian allies to get the world body to back the effort.
The vote was 12 in favor of the resolution and one — the United States — opposed, with abstentions from Britain and Switzerland.
The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, had . . .
