The United States will not take the floor at the main UN human rights forum on Monday during the annual debate on violations committed in the Palestinian territories, as part of a previous agreement not to speak.
The European Union, however, reiterated “the urgency of renewed, structured and substantial efforts towards peace”.
“The US delegation will not be speaking about Palestine,” a US spokesman in Geneva said. The last time that Washington spoke under that stand-alone agenda item was in March 2013, UN records show.
The decision was part of an agreement in October 2013 when Israel resumed participation in the UN Human Rights Council.