Resolution calls for a 90-day humanitarian pause to bring aid to vulnerable populations in conflict zones. FMTNews China US
The UN Security Council has so far remained silent on the biggest global crisis since World War II.
“It’s a major stalemate, nobody’s moving,” one diplomat told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.The text, authored by France and Tunisia and obtained by AFP, has been under discussion for weeks. But Washington and Beijing remain at loggerheads over how to refer to the World Health Organization in the text.
“We don’t comment on ongoing negotiations” at the Security Council, the US State Department said when asked about the stalemate.The co-authors of the text, like the rest of the Security Council, are reduced to waiting for a compromise between the two permanent members, each of which has a right of veto.A vote had been expected this week, and Guterres has been pressing for one for more than a month.
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