Hundreds of people have been killed and millions displaced as extreme weather has ravaged Southeast Asia this month. Indonesia’s heavy rain was linked to two tropical cyclones.
Russia and China abstained in the vote, which provides a legal mandate for the Trump administration’s vision of how to move past the cease-fire to rebuild the war-ravaged enclave after two years of war.
The Trump administration wants the Security Council to adopt a resolution that has the 20-point U.S. plan annexed, effectively making it international law.