Palestinian Foreign Minister calls on UN to implement its resolutions on Palestinian issue and end Israeli occupation

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki called on the United Nations to put in place the necessary mechanisms to implement its decisions on the Palestinian issue, end the Israeli occupation and protect the Palestinian people.

On the sidelines of the 76th  session of the United Nations General Assembly,  Al-Maliki said: “Israel is a colonial and apartheid entity that must be held accountable. The Israeli occupation forces practice every day  field executions, arrests, land seizure and forced displacement against the Palestinian people in a clear rejection of United Nations and Security Council resolutions, especially Resolution 2334.”

In a related context, the Durban World Conference on Combating Racism and Racial Discrimination  unanimously adopted a resolution under the title “Uniting against racism, racial discrimination and other forms of discrimination.”

In his speech during the conference, Al-Maliki said, “I came from the State of Palestine, which tragically  is still  facing the most severe forms of colonialism and apartheid on an ongoing basis. However, in the face of this injustice, the State of Palestine reaffirms the inalienable collective rights of equality, freedom and dignity away from racism and discrimination and underlines the importance of achieving equality worldwide”.

The Durban Conference is a global conference against racism organized by the United Nations for the first time in 2009 at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva and was boycotted by the United States of America, France, Canada, Italy, Poland and the Netherlands.

Inas Abdulkareem