According to the publication, the United States is pressuring some countries, including Ecuador, to vote against full Palestinian membership in the United Nations (UN).

Specifically, it states that Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld received orders from Washington for Ecuador to persuade other countries to reject the resolution scheduled to be discussed tomorrow in the Security Council.

The Intercept reports that Sommerfeld ordered Ecuador’s permanent representative to the UN, Jose De La Gasca, to pressure Japan, France, Korea and Malta to vote against the Palestinian proposal.

Human rights activist and defender Pablo De la Vega recalled that the Ecuadorian State is one of the 25 members of the “United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People”.

Therefore, preventing the recognition of Palestine as a full State in the UN is not only a political but also an ethical and legal contradiction, De la Vega said.

In his opinion, this position is not new, since the government of former president Guillermo Lasso also incurred in open contradictions and violations of an international nature, including the opening of a Trade and Innovation Office in Jerusalem.

While other countries align themselves to recognize Palestine as a full member of the UN and pave the way for peace and justice in the Middle East, Ecuador deepens its commitments and relations with Israel, De la Vega added.

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