RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine’s permanent representative to the UN warned Tuesday that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in northern Gaza face imminent execution for refusing to abandon their land and homes. Riyad Mansour was speaking at a session of the UN Security Council focused on the situation in the Middle East. Mansour ...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – Palestine’s envoy to the UN welcomed the adoption on Monday of a UN Security Council resolution that supports a Gaza cease-fire proposal announced by US President Joe Biden. “Our position has been always to have an immediate cease-fire to stop the killing of our people. This resolution is a step in [&h...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Palestine’s UN envoy Riyad Mansour has said Israel’s war on “Gaza will haunt the conscience of the world long after this genocide stops.” Addressing a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, he demanded that the genocide “must stop now, now!” Although the worl...
Following are the reactions of the representatives of various nations to the vote on Friday in favour of Palestine’s UN membership. Mohamed Issa Abushahab, UAE Ambassador to the United Nations, said that although this was a breakthrough, it was not enough to ensure full representation and membership at the UN. He said, “This resolu...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN Security Council’s president announced on Monday that the council had agreed to officially refer Palestine’s membership application to the “Committee on the Admission of New Members.” Speaking to the press after a closed-door session on Palestine’s membership bid, Malta’s UN en...
NEW YORK Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine, told the General Assembly on Monday that the Palestinians had waited long enough and deserved membership of the UN. “I ask you: Does the UN membership want us to be their fellow member? Do you want us to be a fellow member of you […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip is “part of the assault to end the Palestinian people as a nation,” Palestine’s UN envoy warned Friday. Riyad Mansour dismissed the notion that there is any doubt about Israel’s war aims, saying, “Are we supposed to pretend we don’t know t...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Palestine’s UN envoy Riyad Mansour said on Wednesday “Israel is perpetrating massacres in Gaza every single day,” stressing that there is no right to commit massacres in international law. “For over 10 days now, you have witnessed it; killing entire families, bomb shelters, schools, hospitals, resident...
