The United States says that it will refuse or cancel the visa for Palestinian officials wishing to visit New York next month to participate in the UN General Assembly session.
State Secretary Marco Rubio convicted him for reducing peace efforts and looking for “unilateral recognition of an estimated Palestinian state”.
This decision is unusual – America, as a host country, is expected to facilitate travel for officials of all countries wishing to visit the United Nations Headquarters.
The ban has come as France, which makes international efforts to recognize a state of Palestine in the GA session. Donald Trump’s administration has fully supported Israel in protest against such a step.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of ​​two consecutive state solutions-International formula for a time To solve the decades-old Israel-Filistini conflictIt envisages an independent Palestinian state that is being built with Israel at West Bank and Gaza Strip with Eastern Jerusalem as its capital.
Netanyahu says that the recognition of a Palestinian kingdom will be the amount for rewarding “demonic terrorism of Hamas”.
The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza on 7 October 2023 in response to the Hamas -led attack on Southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people and 251 others were taken hostage.
According to the Hamas-Interested Health Ministry, more than 63,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then.
Hamas has been running a Gaza strip for years, with his rival Fatah at West Bank.
Both should be ruled by the Palestinian Authority (PA) under the leadership of President Mahmud Abbas.
Abbas is also in charge of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) – umbrella organization that represents Palestinians on the international stage. The PLO has received the status of supervisor in the United Nations since 1974. It can participate in meetings but cannot vote on proposals.
In His announcement on Friday, Rubio said: “PLO and PA can be considered a partner for peace, they should continuously repeat terrorism – including the genocide of October 7 – and education should end the end for terrorism, as is required by American law and as promised by the PLO.”
He said that he would also have to end efforts to bypass negotiations by chasing legal cases against Israel in international courts.
Rubio said that according to Palestinian representative in the United Nations Mission in New York, you can participate in meetings. United Nations Headquarters Agreement – Documents issued about the operation of the United Nations in the US.
This is not clear, however, if the US moves to deny or cancel compliance with the document, which outlines that the presence of foreign authorities in New York will not be interrupted by the US by the US and “despite” relations between governments and America.
Apart from France, the UK, Canada and Australia have also announced a plan to recognize a Palestinian state at the GA meeting next month.
The state of Palestine is currently recognized by 147 out of 193 member states of the United Nations.
But with no recognized boundaries, Israeli settles that control large parts of the West Bank – Illegal under international law – And even in Gaza, he asks to do the same, no recognition of the Palestinian state will change much on the ground.
