Palestine – On Thursday evening, the Palestinian Presidency condemned, in the strongest terms, the United States’ use of its veto in the Security Council to prevent the State of Palestine from obtaining full membership in the United Nations.
The Palestinian presidency affirmed that the American “veto” is “unfair, immoral, and unjustified, and challenges the will of the international community, which strongly supports the State of Palestine obtaining full membership in the United Nations, as the majority of countries in the world recognize a Palestinian state since 2012 when the United Nations General Assembly voted.” To raise Palestine’s status in the United Nations to observer state status.”
The presidency stressed that “this aggressive American policy towards Palestine, its people, and its legitimate rights represents a blatant aggression once morest international law, and encourages the continuation of the Israeli war of genocide once morest our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and further pushes the region to the brink of abyss, in light of the continued occupation.” “Israel has seized the land of the State of Palestine and continues its policies of aggression and war crimes that are carried out under the auspices and support of the United States of America, which has continued to use its veto once morest the rights of our people.”
The presidency affirmed that this “aggressive American veto reveals the contradictions of American policy, which on the one hand claims to support the two-state solution, while it prevents the international institution from implementing this solution through its repeated use of the veto in the Security Council once morest Palestine and its legitimate rights.”
The presidency added, “Achieving peace, security, and stability in our region and the world depends on the implementation of international legitimacy resolutions, ending the Israeli occupation of the land of the State of Palestine, and recognizing the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, foremost of which is their right to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
The Palestinian presidency thanked the member states that voted in favor of the State of Palestine obtaining full membership in the United Nations, noting that this international vote in favor of the right of the Palestinian people “is evidence that the world stands united behind the values of truth, justice, freedom and peace that the Palestinian cause represents, and once morest the occupation’s continuing crimes once morest them.” Our people, our land, and our sanctities.”
Source: RT
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2024-04-20 05:35:29
