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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Congress’ updated Goldstone resolution

JTA - Ron Kampeas
The office of U.S. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, just sent out its additions and emendments to a resolution condemning the Goldstone report and urging its quashing by the Obama administration.

Goldstone wrote Berman a letter last week objecting to elements of the resolution...

A modified version of H.Res. 867 will be considered. These three provisions have been added...

(3) calls on the President and the Secretary of State to continue to strongly and unequivocally oppose any endorsement of the `Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict' in multilateral fora, including through leading opposition to any United Nations General Assembly resolution and through vetoing, if necessary, any United Nations Security Council resolution that endorses the contents of this report, seeks to act upon the recommendations contained in this report, or calls on any other international body to take further action regarding this report. Full story