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Zelensky refused to vote against the ICJ investigation amid friction with Netanyahu over military aid

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do so Vote against an International Court of Justice investigation into the legality of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories; order it Zelensky refused to appease Amid tensions over Israel’s lack of military assistance to Ukraine in the war with Russia.

Several official Israeli and Ukrainian sources indicated to the American online portal Axios that Netanyahu asked Zelensky a few weeks ago to vote against the initiative before the General Assembly, taking into account that Kyiv already voted in favor of the resolution in a previous committee-level round.

He chose Zelensky instead He ordered the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations to be absent from the vote “to give a chance to relations with the new Israeli government” led by Netanyahu.According to Ukrainian sources, after a series of failed calls in which the Ukrainian president asked his Israeli counterpart to reconsider his position and Starting to deliver military aid to Ukraine.

The Israeli president replied that he would consider the request but made no commitment, whereupon Zelensky ordered the ambassador to be absent from the vote; his decision It caused some discomfort among the new Israeli government.A high-ranking Ukrainian official explained to the American Internet portal: “Neither of the two leaders was satisfied and neither of them got what they wanted.”

the The resolution was finally approved by a vote of 87 to 26, with 53 abstentions. The corresponding document, titled “Israeli Practices and Settlement Activities Affecting the Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs in the Occupied Territories,” calls on the court to “expeditiously express its opinion” on the “prolonged occupation and annexation of Palestinian lands.” Europa Press reports.