December 3, 2001
The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Monday for a resolution calling on all states with embassies in Jerusalem to move them out of the city.
The non-binding resolution, which has been put to the Assembly and adopted by a strong majority every year for more than two decades, received 130 votes in favour and two against while 10 countries abstained. Delegates from several countries took the floor to explain that they had not had time to cast their votes before the Assembly president declared the ballot closed. President Han Seung-soo of South Korea ruled that the final tally would be amended in the official record.
The resolution declared that Israel's Basic Law, which proclaimed Jerusalem as the eternal and indivisible capital of the Jewish state, was "illegal and therefore null and void and has no validity whatsoever."
It "deplores the transfer of some states of their diplomatic missions to Jerusalem in violation of Security Council Resolution 478 of 1980 and their refusal to comply with the provisions of that resolution."
The Assembly went on to adopt a resolution condemning Israel's continuing occupation of the Golan Heights in southern Syria. It was also to vote on four other resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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