They question Uruguay’s abstention from voting at the United Nations on a truce in Gaza

His statements come after Uruguay, as in October, abstained from voting on a proposal approved by the UN General Assembly calling for an end to the aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

For Caggiani, this is “a very big disgrace” that must be corrected by a Broad Front government, and means “a realignment of the Uruguayan government with the position of Israel and the United States” in the conflict.

He warned that “if the Palestinian population of Gaza continues to be allowed to be mutilated,” it will not be possible to “build a state on rubble and charred bones.”

This Wednesday, Chancellor of the Republic Omar Paganini will be summoned to the Senate International Affairs Committee to explain the “previous vote.”

But today “he will have to talk about this as well, which is undoubtedly worse,” and give “at least an understandable answer, because today Uruguay’s position on this issue is incomprehensible,” said the Frente Amplicista lawmaker.

The previous day, the United Nations General Assembly, by a majority of 153 votes in favour, 10 against and 23 abstentions, approved a resolution promoted by 21 countries, including Palestine, calling for an “immediate ceasefire for humanitarian reasons” in the occupied region. Gaza strip.

This proposal comes a few days after the United States used its veto power against a Security Council resolution of the international organization in favor of a ceasefire in the region.

As in October, when a similar resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian truce was voted on, Montevideo abstained.

This implies a historic change in Uruguay’s foreign policy position, which was crystallized in previous votes even in the World Organization’s Decolonization Committee, which sparked accusations from the opposition, from the Palestinian ambassador here, Nadia Rashid, and from representatives of Israel. Arab League.

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