On July 26, 2002,

John Negroponte John Dimitri Negroponte (; born July 21, 1939) is an American diplomat. He is currently a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a former J.B. and Maurice C. Sh ...

, the

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Ambassador to the United Nations, stated (during a closed meeting of the

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) that the United States will oppose Security Council resolutions concerning the

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that condemn

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without also condemning terrorist groups. This became known as the Negroponte Doctrine, and has been viewed by officials in the United States as a counterweight to the frequent resolutions denouncing Israel that are passed by the

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. Widely reported summaries of Negroponte's statement (an official transcript of these closed-session remarks does not appear to have been released) have stated that for any resolution to go forward, the United States, which has a

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in the 15-nation council, would expect it to have the following four elements: :*A strong and explicit condemnation of all terrorism and incitement to terrorism; :*A condemnation by name of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, Islamic Jihad and

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, groups that have claimed responsibility for suicide attacks on Israel; :*An appeal to all parties for a political settlement of the crisis; :*A demand for improvement of the security situation as a condition for any call for a withdrawal of Israeli armed forces to positions they held before the September 2000 start of the

Second Intifada The Second Intifada ( ar, الانتفاضة الثانية, ; he, האינתיפאדה השנייה, ), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada ( ar, انتفاضة الأقصى, label=none, '), was a major Palestinians, Palestinian uprising a ...

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