US to stop Palestinians attending UN meeting in New York
The United States said that it would deny or cancel visas for Palestinian officials who want to travel to New York next month to attend the UN General Assembly session.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio accused them for undermining their peace efforts and seeking “unilateral recognition of a hypothetical Palestinian state”.
The decision is unusual – as a host country, the United States is expected to facilitate travel for officials of all countries that want to visit the UN center.
The forbidden emerges as international efforts to recognize a Palestinian state in France’s GA session. Donald Trump’s administration completely supported Israel to oppose such a movement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continuously rejected the idea of a two-state solution-long international formula To solve the conflict of Israel-Palestinian for decades. It envisages the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and Gaza Strip in the West Bank.
Netanyahu said that the recognition of the Palestinian state would be awarded “Hamas’s terrible terrorism”.
The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the attack on Hamas on 7 October 2023 against Southern Israel, and about 1,200 people were killed and 251 people were hostage.
According to the Ministry of Health operated by Hamas, more than 63,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then.
Hamas has been running the Gaza Strip for years with its rival Fatah in the West Bank.
Both must be ruled by the Palestinian Authority (PA), led by President Mahmud Abbas.
Abbas is also responsible for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (Plo), an umbrella organization representing Palestinians in the international Fora. Since 1974, the FKÖ had the status of observer at the UN. He can attend meetings, but cannot vote for decisions.
Inside In a statement on Friday, Rubio: “Before being accepted as a partner for Peace, they should constantly reject terrorism, including the October 7 massacre and encourage terrorism in education, as the US law requires and promised by the PLO.”
He also said that they should end their efforts to skip negotiations by following legal cases against Israel in international courts.
Rubio said Palestinian representatives in the UN Mission in New York could participate in meetings. UN Headquarters Agreement – The document published in relation to the activities of the UN in the United States.
However, it is uncertain for the US to take action to comply or cancel this document, which summarizes that the participation of foreign authorities in New York will not be prevented by the United States and the United States “independent of relations”.
In his reaction, the President of the PA, the decision, “International Law and the UN General Directorate of General Directorate of General Directorate of the General Directorate of General Directorate of Palestinian state of the United Nations for the observer member,” he said.
He called on the US to reverse the movement.
UN spokesman Stephanne Dujarric said the UN will meet with the US State Department and hope that the problem will be solved.
“It is important that all member states and permanent observers can be represented, especially in this case, as we know, I think with a two -state solution meeting that France and Saudi Arabia will host at the beginning of the GA.” He said.
Apart from France, England, Canada and Australia also announced that it plans to recognize a Palestinian state at the GA meeting next month.
The Palestinian province is currently recognized by 147 of the UN’s 193 member states.
However, without well -known boundaries, Israeli settlers control most of the West Bank – illegal – And in Gaza, the calls to do the same, any recognition of the Palestinian state does not change much on the ground.
