The American delegation has left the chamber.
Not adjourned. Left. Picked up their binders and walked out while the vote was being called. Thirty-one ambassadors are still sitting in there.
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@H_Mairead · 19 Jan 2026 · 14:51
I have covered this building for nine years. I have watched every kind of disagreement in it.
A diplomat who came out said one sentence to me and went back in: "That was the end of it."
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