UN General Assembly adopts 4 resolutions confirming the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination

WAFA Agency stated that the General Assembly voted during its special session last night on Palestine by majority on the four resolutions that centered on settling the Palestinian issue and requesting the Palestinian Rights Division in the General Secretariat to devote its activities in 2023 to the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, including the holding of a high-level event in the General Assembly Hall on the 15th of next May, in addition to approving the special media program undertaken by the Department of Information Affairs of the General Secretariat on Palestine and requesting the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to mobilize international solidarity and support for the Palestinian people and calling on all governments and organizations to cooperate with the Committee .

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki said that the vote to commemorate the Nakba is an international recognition of the Palestinian tragedy that led to the displacement of the Palestinian people and the transformation of more than half of them into refugees in the diaspora and the other half under the oppression of a colonial apartheid regime, indicating that this vote is a step towards correcting the historical injustice that afflicted Palestine and the Palestinian people.

Al-Maliki stressed that the countries’ majority vote in favor of the resolutions proves the international consensus on the Palestinian issue, the right of the Palestinian people to live in freedom and dignity, their right to self-determination and independence for the State of Palestine and the return of refugees.