By The World Ambassador
TWA
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomes the General Assembly’s adoption of two resolutions, one to commemorate the Nakba annually, and the other to hold an international conference to peacefully settle the Palestinian issue and implement the two-state solution.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the State of Palestine welcomed the General Assembly’s adoption of the resolution on the peaceful settlement of the Palestinian issue by an overwhelming majority of 157 countries in favor of the resolution, 7 countries abstaining, and 8 countries against. As well as a resolution on the Division of the Rights of the Palestinian People at the United Nations, with 101 countries voting in favor of the resolution, 42 countries abstaining, and 27 against.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs pointed out the importance of these resolutions in emphasizing the need to end the Israeli occupation of the occupied Palestinian territories, and to achieve the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, considering them, along with international law, the basis for any solution to the Palestinian issue.
The Foreign Ministry also stressed that the peaceful settlement resolution adopted the mechanism for holding the international peace conference, provided that this conference be under the auspices of the General Assembly during the seventy-ninth session, in order to implement the United Nations resolutions related to the Palestinian issue and implement the two-state solution in order to achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, and that sisterly Saudi Arabia and France will chair this conference in June of next year 2025.
The Foreign Ministry thanked the brothers in Saudi Arabia and France for chairing the conference for its importance in determining the mechanisms for collective action to resolve the Palestinian issue, and to quickly chart an irreversible path towards a peaceful settlement of the Palestinian issue and implementing the two-state solution.
The Foreign Ministry of the State of Palestine stressed that the second resolution on the Division for the Rights of the Palestinian People at the United Nations confirmed in its operative part the demand for the UN Division to commemorate the Nakba, including by organizing annual events to preserve the memory and its living testimonies.
She also expressed her thanks to the countries that supported and sponsored the resolutions, and those that voted in favor of them, and singled out those countries that changed their votes positively, and called on the countries that did not support the resolutions to review their positions and be part of the international consensus in order to restore hope for peace and stability in the Middle East region, and that this is possible by ending the Israeli occupation and achieving the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, and embodying the independent, sovereign State of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital.
