Abbas Asks UN for Mideast Conference Next Year
UNITED NATIONS (Dispatches) – Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas asked the United Nations on Friday to arrange an international conference on the so-called peace process, in the wake of Arab regime’s normalization of ties with the Zionist regime.
In an address to the UN General Assembly, Abbas asked Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to convene the meeting "early next year” and bring in "all relevant parties.”
"The conference should have full authority to launch a genuine peace process based on international law,” Abbas told the virtual General Assembly in a recorded address.
"It should aim to end the occupation and grant the Palestinian people their freedom and independence in their own state along the 1967 borders with East al-Quds as its capital and settle final-status issues, notably the refugee question,” he said.
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, in a treacherous move that ignored the Palestinian cause, earlier this month normalized ties with the Zionist regime which sparked an outcry in the Muslim world.
Abbas said: "It is delusional to think that the Palestinian people could be sidelined.”
"You should all know that there can be no peace, no security, no stability or coexistence in our region without an end to the occupation and without a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian question,” he said.
The Palestinian Authority has refused diplomatic efforts by the Trump administration, saying it is biased toward the Zionist regime.
Meanwhile, Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the construction of thousands more homes in the occupied West Bank, in complete defiance of international outcry against the occupying regime’s policies of land grab and illegal settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian lands.
Palestinian Arabic-language Ma’an news agency, citing a report published by Israel’s Channel 7 media network, reported that the Zionist premier had given the green light for plans to build over 5,000 units, after more than six months during which such construction had been frozen.
The report added that there have been contacts between settlement leaders and Netanyahu over the past few days, where Zionists have called on the Netanyahu to end the freeze on settlement activities in the West Bank or face large-scale protests against his administration.
In an address to the UN General Assembly, Abbas asked Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to convene the meeting "early next year” and bring in "all relevant parties.”
"The conference should have full authority to launch a genuine peace process based on international law,” Abbas told the virtual General Assembly in a recorded address.
"It should aim to end the occupation and grant the Palestinian people their freedom and independence in their own state along the 1967 borders with East al-Quds as its capital and settle final-status issues, notably the refugee question,” he said.
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, in a treacherous move that ignored the Palestinian cause, earlier this month normalized ties with the Zionist regime which sparked an outcry in the Muslim world.
Abbas said: "It is delusional to think that the Palestinian people could be sidelined.”
"You should all know that there can be no peace, no security, no stability or coexistence in our region without an end to the occupation and without a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian question,” he said.
The Palestinian Authority has refused diplomatic efforts by the Trump administration, saying it is biased toward the Zionist regime.
Meanwhile, Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the construction of thousands more homes in the occupied West Bank, in complete defiance of international outcry against the occupying regime’s policies of land grab and illegal settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian lands.
Palestinian Arabic-language Ma’an news agency, citing a report published by Israel’s Channel 7 media network, reported that the Zionist premier had given the green light for plans to build over 5,000 units, after more than six months during which such construction had been frozen.
The report added that there have been contacts between settlement leaders and Netanyahu over the past few days, where Zionists have called on the Netanyahu to end the freeze on settlement activities in the West Bank or face large-scale protests against his administration.