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Security Council Fails to Adopt Resolution Condemning Killing of Hamas Leader

25 March 2004

A draft resolution that would have condemned the most recent extrajudicial execution of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin along with six other Palestinians on Monday and would have called for a complete cessation of extrajudicial killings was defeated in the Security Council today, owing to a veto by the United States, a permanent member of the Council.
Dan Gillerman, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, briefing correspondents today at UN Headquarters.

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