United States of America
Ambassador John D. Negroponte
The United States is a permanent member of the UN Security Council and one of the participants in the Middle East Quartet, formed to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. John D. Negroponte has served as the United States’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations since September 2001. The following is excerpted from the 4,929 th meeting of the Security Council on March 23, 2004, and the 4,935 th meeting of the Security Council on March 25, 2004, in New York.The United States will vote against this draft resolution because, in our view, it is silent about the terrorist atrocities committed by…