President Abbas’s representative: Granting Palestine full membership in the UN would alleviate historical injustices
Ziad Abu Amr, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said on Thursday before the UN Security Council that granting Palestine full membership in the United Nations would alleviate some of the historical injustices endured by the Palestinian people.
He stated that this step would open broad prospects for achieving genuine peace and safeguarding the two-state solution.
Speaking on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas, Abu Amr highlighted the ongoing ordeal of the Palestinian people, which has persisted for over a century. He emphasized that Palestinians have been victims of international events and resolutions not of their making, suffering from a historical injustice.
He stressed that Palestinians, who faced the Nakba in 1948 and Israeli occupation in 1967, continue to aspire to exercise their right to self-determination and live freely, securely, and peacefully in an independent state, like all other peoples of the world. Abu Amr acknowledged the significant sacrifices Palestinians have made and continue to make towards this goal.
Abu Amr questioned how recognizing the State of Palestine and granting it full UN membership would harm the prospects for peace between Palestinians and Israelis or international peace and security.
He directed this question specifically at the United States and other countries opposing Palestine’s full membership, while recognizing Israel, the other party in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as a full UN member.
WAFA News agency