UN General Assembly’s budgetary committee says it will cost $3.1 million over the next year to set up a Register of Damage caused by Israel’s construction of a Wall in the occupied West Bank

The UN General Assembly’s Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) decided to inform the Assembly that it will cost $3.1 million to set up (in Vienna) a Register of Damages caused by Israel’s construction of a Wall in the occupied West Bank.  The Spokeswoman for the President of the General Assembly told journalists earlier this week that the Fifth Committee took this decision by a vote: 116 in favour to 6 against ( Australia, Canada, Israel, Nauru, Palau and the United States) with one abstention ( Republic of Moldova).

The UN General Assembly will take a decision on establishing the Register of Damages on Friday 15 December.

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