Uganda Votes for UN Two-State Resolution on Palestine and Israel

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, with 142 countries voting in favor, 10 against, and 12 abstaining.

Uganda voted in support, reaffirming President Yoweri Museveni’s consistent position on the Middle East conflict.

President Museveni, who currently chairs the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), has been vocal on the issue.

In a June statement, he urged global actors in the Israel-Iran conflict to exercise restraint, abandon chauvinism and extremism, and embrace principled diplomacy based on historical realities and mutual recognition.

At the heart of Museveni’s message was a strong endorsement of the two-state solution. He stressed that both Israelis and Palestinians have legitimate historical claims to the land and must coexist. Criticizing Israel’s reluctance to embrace Palestinian statehood, he remarked:

“You cannot say the Palestinians do not belong there, that’s the same logic Idi Amin used when he expelled Ugandan Indians. We rejected that logic then, and we reject it now.”

His balanced approach reflects Uganda’s non-aligned principles of integrity, multilateralism, and rejection of identity-based chauvinism.

The UN resolution vindicates these views, calling for an end to unilateral actions undermining peace and urging a return to negotiations under international law and relevant UN resolutions.

For Uganda, the vote was not only a diplomatic alignment with the global majority but also a reaffirmation of the principles Museveni outlined as NAM Chair: mutual recognition, legitimate interests, and dialogue over force.