Nikki Haley, US ambassador to United Nations, rejects choice of Salam Fayyad as Libya peace broker and declares UN ‘biased to the detriment of our allies’
The United States has blocked the appointment of the former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad as UN envoy to Libya.
Donald Trump’s UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, said in a statement that she did not “support the signal this appointment would send within the United Nations” where the state of Palestine does not have full membership.
The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, had informed the security council during the week of his intention to name Fayyad to lead the UN support mission in Libya and help broker talks on a faltering political deal.
Haley said the United States was “disappointed” to see the letter from Guterres, his first appointment of an envoy to a major conflict area.
“For too long the UN has been unfairly biased in favour of the Palestinian Authority to the detriment of our allies in Israel,” said the US ambassador.
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