The Second Committee of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, which deals with economic and financial matters, adopted on Wednesday a resolution on the permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people over their natural resources in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan.

The text was presented by the Group of 77 (G77) and China and received 151 votes in favor, including all European Union (EU) member states and Canada, seven against — the United States, Israel, Colombia, Paraguay, Palau, Nauru and Micronesia — and 11 abstentions. The resolution reaffirmed the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to their natural resources and demanded that Israel cease exploiting them.