Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al Malki said Tuesday it was the time to bring the Nakba and the Palestinian people’s dispossession and displacement from their land to an end.
Speaking before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in New York, Al Malki said the Nakba was the most protracted refugee crisis and the most protracted denial of national, collective and individual rights in the world and the longest occupation of an entire territory in modern history.
He reminded the international community of its responsibility to ensure international law is respected regardless of the identity of the perpetrators and regardless of the identity of the victims as well as the UNSC of its responsibility to uphold the UN Charter and implement UN resolutions.
Al Malki renewed his call on states that have not yet recognized the State of Palestine to do so as a means to salvage the moribund two-state solution. How can any country that supports the two-solution and peace justify not recognizing till now the State of Palestine without which there is no two-state solution?, he was cited by Palestinian News Agency WAFA.
He said: “Why would this Council who has been calling for a two-state solution for decades not recommend membership of the State of Palestine to the General Assembly? I have no doubt that the General Assembly will agree once that recommendation is made.
“Is there a better way to embody international support to the two-state solution than to have the State that has been unjustly deprived of membership since 1948 finally become a UN member? Why would Israel which violated the very conditions of its membership, namely resolutions 181 and 194, and continues violating the Charter, be entitled to membership and we, who honor the UN Charter, be deprived of it?”
Source: Qatar News Agency