NEW YORK – U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley is threatening the 193 U.N. member states and the United Nations with funding cuts as the U.N. General Assembly approves a resolution calling President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “null and void.”
Haley tells an emergency meeting of the assembly that “no vote in the United Nations will make any difference” on the U.S. decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem, which will go ahead because “it is the right thing to do.”
She says “the United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very right of exercising our right as a sovereign nation.”
“We will remember it when we are called upon once again to make the world’s largest contribution to the United Nations,” she says. “And we will remember when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit.”
Haley says Thursday’s vote “will make a difference on how Americans look at the U.N. and on how we look at countries who disrespect us in the U.N., and this vote will be remembered.”