Palestinian FM: International consensus on the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination is insufficient unless it is accompanied by practical measures

OCCUPIED AL-QUDS, (ST)- Today, the Palestinian  Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates declared that the international consensus on the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian land is insufficient unless it is  accompanied by practical measures and steps that lead to ensuring its implementation on the ground by forcing the occupying power to stop the seizure of land, settlement construction, and all its violations and crimes against our people, their property, and holy places, including halting the Judaization of Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine, and attempts to separate it from its Palestinian surroundings.

It said the international community should force the Israeli entity to engage in a real peace process in accordance with international peace references, including the Arab Peace Initiative, which calls for ending the occupation and enabling our people to establish their state on the June 4, 1967, borders, according to WAFA News Agency.

The Foreign Ministry called on the US administration and all countries, especially the members of the UN Security Council, to support full membership of the State of Palestine in the United Nations.

“What is required internationally is to take international measures to ensure its implementation on the ground without any manipulation of its terms under any flimsy Israeli considerations or arguments such as security arrangements or others,” the statement read.

Basma Qaddour