Affirming the votes of the eight countries including the United States opposing the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly resolution titled, "Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan"

H.Res.798
Introduced: 
June 24, 2016
114
Second
June 24, 2016
Referred to House (sub)committee

This resolution affirmed U.S. opposition to the resolution passed at the 69th World Health Assembly in 5/2016 that noted a litany of public health-related issues among Palestinians in the oPt arising from the Israeli occupation. It encouraged the assembly, the decision-making body for the World Health Organization, to annul the resolution and highlighted the efforts Israel has made to improve public health conditions in the oPt.

4 cosponsors (3D, 1R).

Last major action: 6/24/16 referred to House Comm. on Foreign Affairs.

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