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November 13, 2016

Palestinian Rep Threatens to Make Trump's 'Life Miserable' at the UN

President-elect Donald Trump
"The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, said in Washington on Friday that if President-elect Donald Trump moves the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem the Palestinians would 'make life miserable' for the United States at the United Nations.

"If people attack us by moving the embassy to Jerusalem... If they do that nobody should blame us for unleashing all of the weapons that we have in the UN to defend ourselves and we have a lot of weapons in the UN,' Mansour said.

Mansour said that the Palestinian response to a move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem could not be a Security Council resolution because the United States would veto it. 'Maybe I can't have resolutions in the Security Council but I can make their lives miserable everyday with precipitating a veto on my admission as a member state. Italy in 1949 received 3 consecutive vetoes on its admission to the UN from the Soviet Union. These are the kind of things that I can do.'

Mansour said he could 'reopen the whole Pandora's Box' of verdicts in the International Criminal Court of Justice on the matter of the separation barrier or the settlements..."
Date
November 13, 2016
Title
Palestinian UN Envoy: If Trump Moves Embassy to Jerusalem We’ll ‘Make His Life Miserable’, Haaretz
Author(s)
Barak Ravid
Original Source
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.752758
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