Cherif Mahamat Zen
(center), Permanent Representative of the Republic of Chad
to the UN and rotating President of the UN Security Council, chairs the session that fails to pass (8-2, with 5 abstentions and 9 yea votes needed for approval) draft resolution S/2014/916 calling for a comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace within one year and establishment of “a sovereign, contiguous and viable State of Palestine” within three years.