On July 26th 2002, John Negroponte, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, stated (during a closed meeting of the UN Security Council) that the United States will oppose Security Council resolutions which condemn Israel without also condemning terrorist groups (and so are one-sided and biased from the US government point of view). This has come to be known as the Negroponte doctrine, and is viewed by the United States as a counterweight to the frequent resolutions denouncing Israel which are passed by the UN General Assembly. John D. Negroponte John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939) (IPA ) is a career diplomat currently serving as Director of National Intelligence for the United States. ...

Here is a widely-reported summary of Negroponte's statement (an official transcript of these closed-session remarks does not appear to have been released):

For any resolution to go forward, the United States — which has a veto in the 15-nation council — would want it to have the following four elements:

- An explicit condemnation of terrorism;

- A condemnation by name of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, the Islamic Jihad and Hamas groups, groups that have claimed responsibility for suicide attacks on Israel;

- An appeal to all parties for a political settlement of the crisis;

- A demand for improvement of the security situation as a condition for any call for a withdrawal of Israeli armed forces to positions they held before the September 2000 start of a Palestinian uprising in which 1,467 Palestinians and 564 Israelis have died.

The veto power is a power wielded solely by the 5 permanent members of the UN security council. ... The Al_Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (كتائب شهداء الاقصى) are one of the militias of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafats al_Fatah faction. ... Islamic Jihad (Arabic: Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami) is a militant Islamist group based in the Syrian capital, Damascus. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... The wreckage of a commuter bus in West Jerusalem after a suicide bombing on Tuesday, 18 June 2002. ...

See also

• United States and the United Nations
• Israel and the United Nations

The United States is a charter member of the United Nations and one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council. ... Israel and the United Nations have had very mixed relations, since the states founding on May 14, 1948. ...

External links

• U.S.: UN resolutions must condemn Palestinian terror Haaretz 27/07/2002
• Summary at official UN website
• Ambassador Negroponte: Statement on the Middle East at the Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly, August 5, 2002
• Christian Science Monitor on the Negroponte doctrine, December 08, 2003