“We welcome with great pleasure the UN General Assembly’s overwhelming support for a historic resolution on Al-Quds Al-Sharif (Jerusalem),” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on his official Twitter account. Turkey would continue to side with “its Palestinian brothers, humanity, Jerusalem, justice and those who are oppressed,” he noted. Turkey’s presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin also hailed the UN resolution, describing the vote “historic” for Jerusalem, Palestine and international justice. “Today, the General Assembly clearly rejected the US decision on Jerusalem. A total of 128 members voted in favour of the resolution, nine voted against and 35 others abstained.

Source: New Strait Times December 22, 2017 02:03 UTC