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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
15:29 Mecca time, 12:29 GMT
News Americas
US denies Olmert influenced UN vote
The US has denied that a telephone call made by Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime
minister, to George Bush, the US president, led to the US abstaining in a UN
vote on the Gaza war last week.
In a speech late on Monday, Olmert said Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of
state, was left "pretty shamed" at the vote and had to abstain on a resolution
she had helped arrange.
Sean McCormack, a US state department spokesmen, who was with Rice at the UN
last week during debate on the security council resolution, said the remarks
were "just 100 per cent, totally, completely untrue".
McCormack said that Washington had no plans to seek clarification from Israel.
Mark Regev, a spokesman for Ehud Olmert, said the Israeli leader stood by his
remarks.
Telephone influence
The Israeli prime minister said on Monday that he demanded to talk to Bush last
Thursday, minutes before a vote in the UN Security Council on a resolution
calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
"He [Bush] gave an order to the secretary of state and she did not vote in
favour of it, a resolution she cooked up, phrased, organised and manoeuvred for"
Ehud Olmert
"When we saw that Rice, for reasons we did not really understand, wanted to
vote in favour of the resolution ... I looked for President Bush," Olmert said.
Bush, who Olmert said was taken off a stage in Philadelphia where he was making
a speech, said he was not informed on the resolution and was "not familiar with
the phrasing".
"I'm familiar with it. You can't vote in favour." Olmert claimed telling the US
president.
"He [Bush] gave an order to the secretary of state and she did not vote in
favour of it, a resolution she cooked up, phrased, organised and manoeuvred
for," Olmert said.
Bush was in Philadelphia on Thursday morning and gave a 27-minute speech on
education policy that ended about 10 hours before the UN vote and there was no
interruption of the public event.
The Israeli prime minister described Bush as an "unparalleled friend" of Israel.
UN call
Fourteen of the security council's 15 members supported the legally binding
resolution, which has until now failed to stop Israel's offensive in Gaza.
Olmert criticised the UN resolution, saying that "no decision, present or
future, will deny us our basic right to defend the residents of Israel".
Israel launched its offensive on December 27, in what it said was an attempt to
stop Hamas firing rockets into southern Israel from Gaza.
After an intensive air campaign in the first week, Israel sent ground forces
into Gaza in the second week of fighting and continues to push deeper into the
strip.
Source: Agencies
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