State Department Principal Deputy Press Secretary Vedant Patel confirmed Thursday that the U.S. will veto a United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution that would have allowed Palestinians to achieve recognition of statehood.
Earlier in the day, White House national security spokesman John Kirby had dodged a question about whether the U.S. would veto such a resolution, saying merely that the administration believed that negotiations were the only path to statehood.
But Patel made the administration’s veto pledge explicit, adding that there had been disagreement among the members of the UN Security Council about whether the Palestinians met the basic criteria needed for statehood.
He added that under existing U.S. law, funding to the UN would have to be eliminated if the UN were
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