{"id":234170,"date":"2026-05-23T16:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-un-general-assembly-adopts-landmark-climate-resolution-tunisia-abstains\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:14:53","slug":"tunisia-un-general-assembly-adopts-landmark-climate-resolution-tunisia-abstains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-un-general-assembly-adopts-landmark-climate-resolution-tunisia-abstains\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: UN General Assembly Adopts Landmark Climate Resolution, Tunisia Abstains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Tunis \u2014 The United Nations General Assembly reached a major legal milestone on May 20, 2026, by adopting Resolution &#8220;A\/80\/L.65,&#8221; which transforms climate commitments into international legal obligations. The text secured a broad majority of 141 votes, while Tunisia opted to abstain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Tunisia thus aligned itself with a bloc of 28 countries, including nine other Arab nations: Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Sudan, and Syria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">This position reflects deep concern over Article 4 of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605220049.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis \u2014 The United Nations General Assembly reached a major legal milestone on May 20, 2026, by adopting Resolution &#8220;A\/80\/L.65,&#8221; which transforms climate commitments into international legal obligations. The text secured a broad majority of 141 votes, while Tunisia opted to abstain. Tunisia thus aligned itself with a bloc of 28 countries, including nine other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":234171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[54460,11110,258,256,7269,6239,6768,12583,257,6133,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-234170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-abstains","tag-adopts","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assembly","tag-climate","tag-general","tag-landmark","tag-news","tag-resolution","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}