Issue: On 6 December, 2017 United states of America had declared unilaterally Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But the United Nations general assembly on 21 December, 2017 rejected the proposal of USA by majority vote.
-128 members on UN including India voted in favour of the resolution supporting the longstanding international consensus that the status of Jerusalem can only be settled as an agreed final issue in a peace deal.
-Only nine countries including the United States and Israel –voted against the resolution. The other countries which supported USA were Togo, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Marshall Islands, Guatemala and Honduras.
-35 countries abstained, including five EU states, and other US allies including Australia, Canada, Colombia and Mexico.
-Reiterating its traditional policy on the dispute India voted for a negotiated settlement of the Jerusalem issue at the UN General Assembly with 127 other member countries. India had maintained that it follows an independent policy on the issue of Jerusalem which does not get influenced by “third parties”.
– Jerusalem is claimed as a capital by both Israel and the Palestinians.
-European Union describes Jerusalem as corpus Separatum.
