{"id":6592,"date":"2017-12-20T21:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=6592"},"modified":"2017-12-20T21:30:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:30:47","slug":"trump-threatens-to-cut-aid-over-un-jerusalem-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=6592","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to cut aid over UN Jerusalem vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0has threatened to cut aid to countries that vote in favour of a draft\u00a0UN\u00a0resolution condemning the US decision to recognise\u00a0Jerusalem\u00a0as the capital of\u00a0Israel.:
\nTrump said at the White House on Wednesday the US would be “watching those votes” in the General Assembly.
\n“They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care,” Reuters news agency quoted Trump as saying.
\nThe UN General Assembly will hold an emergency session on Thursday to vote on the controversial US decision.
\nThe motion is expected to pass easily in the 193-member UN body, but it will be non-binding.
\nTrump’s comments came after Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the UN, sent threatening letters to UN member states, urging them to vote against the motion.
\nHaley also said on Twitter “the US will be taking names” of countries that vote in favour of the resolution.
\nRiyad al-Malki,\u00a0Palestinian foreign minister,\u00a0on Wednesday accused the US of “threatening” member countries of the UN General Assembly in advance of the vote.
\nMalki said American officials were “committing another mistake when they have distributed this famous letter trying to threaten countries, [and] threaten their sovereign decision to choose how to vote”.
\n“This is really a new definition of world order in politics and it seems that the American administration … are putting their stamp on a new political reality that many countries will reject,” Malki said.
\nThe UN session would show “how many countries will opt to vote with their conscience”.
\nTrump\u00a0declared\u00a0on December 6\u00a0Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital and announced the intention to move its embassy to the city.
\nThe contentious move prompted large-scale\u00a0protests\u00a0and condemnation from leaders around the world.
\nUS veto
\nThe US\u00a0vetoed\u00a0on Tuesday an Egyptian-sponsored\u00a0UN Security Council\u00a0resolution that called on countries not to establish diplomatic missions in Jerusalem.
\nThe US was outnumbered 14 to 1 when it vetoed that resolution.
\nAl Jazeera’s Mike Hanna, reporting from the UN headquarters in New York, said the Swedish ambassador to the UN has signalled the country would vote in favour of the resolution.
\n“What we’re going to be seeing in the General Assembly Thursday, on that particular vote, is likely to be a sweeping condemnation now not just of attempts to alter the status of Jerusalem, but also in a way an opinion poll on President Trump’s isolationist policies,” he said.
\nSource:\u00a0Al Jazeera News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0has threatened to cut aid to countries that vote in favour of a draft\u00a0UN\u00a0resolution condemning the US decision to recognise\u00a0Jerusalem\u00a0as the capital of\u00a0Israel.: Trump said at the White House on Wednesday the US would be “watching those votes” in the General Assembly. “They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}