State Department wanted to see how UN ‘debate would unfold’

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Secretary of State John Kerry’s team did not oppose debating a United Nations Security Council resolution about Israeli settlements in the United Nations Security Council, according to a spokesman who declined to say how the United States would have voted.

“I think we were interested to see how the debate and discussion would unfold, and I think I’d leave it at that,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters.

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