“We call on the American government to withdraw this decision, which only increases tension and escalation,” announced on Saturday spokesman for President Mahmud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, quoted by the AP agency.
The US has withdrawn visitors to Palestinian officials. The UN is to demand explanations
The American Department of State announced on Friday that he is backing a visa or refuses to issue them to representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization (POP) and Palestinian autonomy before the annual session of the UN General Assembly taking place at the headquarters of this organization in New York and starting on September 9.
The ban includes about 80 autonomy officials, including its President Abbas – clarified on Saturday the deputy spokesman for the Department of State Tommy Pigott. He added that the Palestinian Authorities will not be taken seriously until they “reject terrorism, partisan legal campaigns before the International Criminal Court (MTK) and the International Court of Justice (MTS) and aspirations for unilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood.”
It has been added that restrictions will not affect the officials of the Palestinian mission at the UN.
For many years, Abbas led the Palestinian delegation to the UN General Assembly session of the General Assembly every year and spoke on her forum.
Ministers of foreign affairs of the European Union countries appeal to the USA to reconsider this decision, taking into account international law – said on Saturday the head of EU diplomacy Kaja Kallas after the meeting of EU ministers in Copenhagen.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that the organization would demand explanations from the USA.
Subsequent countries want to recognize the statehood of Palestine
Several countries, including France, Great Britain, Canada and Australia, have announced that they recognize Palestine's statehood during the September UN session. Israel criticized these decisions, specifying them, among others as rewarding a terrorist Hamas. A similar position was presented by the American Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The current Israeli government is opposed to the emergence of the Palestinian state, which this nation would like to create in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank of Jordan and Eastern Jerusalem. The creation of independent Palestine is an element of the so -called two-state solutions that would end with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This approach is supported, among others by the UN, the EU, Arab states or Palestinian autonomy.
The APP is an organization recognized, among others by the UN for a representative of the Palestinian nation. Palestinian autonomy is an administrative structure depending on the PLO, co -managing the western shore occupied by Israel. These organizations are dominated by the nationalist secular Fatah party, headed by Abbas.
