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On Friday, the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, called on the United Nations to hold an international conference in early 2021, after the US presidential elections, with the aim of “starting a real peace process based on the law. international”.
Abbas said in a speech he made during the United Nations General Assembly that this request is aimed at “ending the (Israeli) occupation and winning the Palestinian people their freedom and independence,” and in response to US President Donald’s plan. Trump, “which is what we reject and reject with us all over the world, for violating the resolutions of international legitimacy.”
Abbas explained: “I call upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in cooperation with the Quartet and the Security Council, to begin arrangements for the holding of a full-power international conference, with the participation of all interested parties, starting early next year, with the aim of starting a real peace process based on international law, international legitimacy and benchmarks. ” And in a way that leads to the end of the occupation and the Palestinian people obtain their freedom and independence in their state with East Jerusalem as their capital on the 1967 borders.
In his speech, Abbas relayed the Trump plan he presented earlier this year, as well as the agreements concluded by the Hebrew state in recent weeks to normalize its relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain under the auspices of the US president.
Abbas emphasized in a speech delivered from his office in Ramallah that Israel “has denied all the agreements signed with him and has undermined the two-state solution through its aggressive practices of killing, arresting, destroying homes, strangling the economy, violating the occupied city of Jerusalem, and systematically work to change its character and identity and attack. ” On his Islamic and Christian sanctities … and his work now to kill the last chance for peace through hasty unilateral measures. “
He said: “Finally, normalization agreements between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are announced, in contravention of the Arab Peace Initiative, and the foundations and pillars of a comprehensive and just solution in accordance with international law.”
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