Ambassador produces proof of T&T’s UN vote on Palestine

Akash Sama­roo

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Am­bas­sador to the Unit­ed Na­tions, Dr Neil Parsan, has re­ject­ed ac­cu­sa­tions that he mis­led the coun­try about its vote on a res­o­lu­tion con­cern­ing Pales­tine, pro­duc­ing an elec­tron­ic vot­ing re­ceipt as ev­i­dence that Trinidad and To­ba­go sup­port­ed the mea­sure.

Parsan in­sist­ed that T&T vot­ed in favour of the Sep­tem­ber 17 res­o­lu­tion al­low­ing Pales­tin­ian Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Ab­bas to ad­dress the UN Gen­er­al As­sem­bly vir­tu­al­ly, de­spite an of­fi­cial UN Dig­i­tal Li­brary record show­ing no vote record­ed for this coun­try.