December 23, 2021

U.N. Votes to Fund Unprecedented "Commission of Inquiry" Targeting Israel

Results of the vote on Israel's proposed amendment
On December 23, 2021, the U.N.'s financial committee (5th Committee) rejected a proposed amendment by Israel to eliminate funding for a Human Rights Council "Commission of Inquiry" targeting Israel.

The oral amendment would have inserted the following paragraph to the draft resolution on special subjects: Decides not to approve resources related to resolution S-30/1.

The "Commission of Inquiry" has no end-date and will be funded by an unprecedented amount of cash and human resources, all to come from the UN’s regular budget – that is, to be charged to every taxpayer of every UN member state every year for eternity.
Date
December 23, 2021
Title
Oral amendment proposed by Israel to the draft resolution contained in Section IX of A/C.5/76/L.17
Note
The oral amendment was rejected on December 23, 2021, by a vote of 8 in favor (Hungary, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, United States), 125 against, 34 abstentions (Albania, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canada, Central African Republic, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Fiji, Germany, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Italy, Lithuania, Madagascar, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Republic of Korea, Rwanda, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Zambia)

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Related Documents

Date Title
12/24/2021 Oral amendment proposed by Israel to the U.N. General Assembly resolution “Special subjects relating to the proposed programme budget 2022,” A/RES/76/246
12/23/2021 Proposed programme budget for 2022, Report of the Fifth Committee, A/76/633
12/15/2021 Revised estimates from resolutions and decisions by the Human Rights Council at its forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth regular sessions, and at it thirtieth, thirty-first and thirty special sessions: Thirty-first report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the proposed programme budget for 2022, A/76/7/Add.30
9/29/2021 Oral Statement of programme budget implications arising from draft resolution A/HRC/S-30/L.1 of the Human Rights Council
5/27/2021 U.N. Human Rights Council Resolution, “Ensuring respect for international human rights law and international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel,” A/HRC/RES/S-30/1