Guyana is one of 128 countries that supported a United Nations Resolution which calls on the United States to withdraw its recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Part of the resolution reads: “…any decisions and actions which purport to have altered, the character, status or demographic composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal effect, are null and void and must be rescinded in compliance with relevant resolutions of the [UN] Security Council”.

The Resolution “calls upon all States to refrain from the establishment of diplomatic missions in the Holy City of Jerusalem”.
The nine countries that voted against the resolution were: the United States, Israel, Guatemala, Honduras, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Togo while 35 nations (including Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago) abstained.

Guyana’s Ambassador to the UN, Michael Ten-Pow in an interview with NCN News said that Guyana’s support of the resolution should not be seen as an anti-US stance.
In a telephone interview, Ambassador Ten-Pow explained that the resolution simply reaffirmed what has long been the position of the wider international community. Israel, Guatemala and Honduras were also among the states that voted against the resolution while Canada and Mexico abstained.

The US through its President Donald Trump had threatened to cut financial aid to countries which voted against its decision to identify Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Earlier this month, President Trump told reporters at the White House, “They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us.”
“Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care,” he continued.

But notwithstanding this, Ambassador Ten-Pow stressed that Guyana’s position should not be seen as anti-US. Guyana believes that the solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine must be resolved peacefully and that the status of Jerusalem would be concluded based on negotiation.