Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), gives a predetermined video speech at the General Meeting of the United Nations, next week in New York. The UN Member States have been on Friday with an overwhelming majority of 145 to 5 consent. It is an emergency solution, because Abbas actually wanted to travel to the annual assembly of the UN.
The Palestinians would come up with a delegation of about eighty people: representatives of the Palestinian authority, the formal administration of part of the West Bank occupied by Israel, and the Palestinian liberation organization (PLO). At the end of August, the government of US President Donald Trump announced this delegation access to the US deny. Only the UN mission of the PLO is welcome.
According to agreements drawn up in 1947 around the establishment of the UN headquarters in New York, are The US obliges all international delegations to allow the general meeting.
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Abbas wanted to be present at the UN meeting, one of the largest diplomatic meetings of the year, because countries such as France, Canada and Australia want to recognize the Palestinian state there. British media expect the United Kingdom of Palestine to acknowledge this weekend, Belgium recently announced recognition under certain conditions. There is no such recognition in countries such as Germany, the US and the Netherlands. From the 193 UN Member States Recognize 147 the Palestinian state.
Israel is welcome in the US. A UN investigation committee concluded on Wednesday that Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza. According to the committee, there is sufficient evidence that there is deliberate destruction of the Palestinian people. Mayor of New York Eric Adams nevertheless let us know “To look forward” to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again. Netanyahu itself say To be invited to an audience at Trump. An international arrest warrant applies to Netanyahu.
The EU requested the US government to reconsider the decision to keep the Palestinian representation from the UN meeting, but received zero on the complaint. The Danish MEP per clausen Therefore, on moving the meeting to Geneva, Switzerland, “both to keep the right of the Palestinians to be represented and to send a clear signal to Trump.” No hearing was given to this.
Palestine is not a fully-fledged UN Member State, but has had the status of perceived non-member state since 2012. That means that the UN meetings may attend but cannot vote.
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