'1 in 8 in world' oppose US Jerusalem policy

By Ugur Cil, Zehra Ulucak and Zuhal Demirci

ANKARA (AA) - The 128 countries that voted against the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem at Thursday’s UN General Assembly represent more than eight in 10 people in the world.

Overall, those that backed the resolution declaring U.S. President Donald Trump’s policy of recognizing Jerusalem as the Israeli capital “null and void” represent 6.19 billion people -- 82.5 percent of the global population.

The nine nations that opposed the motion -- the U.S., Israel, Honduras, Togo, Palau, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Guatemala -- account for 380 million, or just over 5 percent of the world’s inhabitants.

The 35 abstaining countries have a combined population of 650 million -- 8.6 percent of the world’s population -- and the 21 states that were absent account for 3.8 percent, or 290 million people.

The nonbinding resolution, sponsored by Turkey and Yemen, followed a Security Council resolution on Jerusalem earlier in the week that was vetoed by the U.S.