McElroy's remarks were brushed aside as a violation of the code, the meaningless words of a rookie who didn't know his place.

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These words are empty and meaningless.

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In other words, the financial statements are meaningless.

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But Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the vote "meaningless", and said that Mr Abbas' address in New York had not been "the words of a man who wants peace".

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