Palestine admission to UN ‘long overdue': Envoy

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The Palestinian Ambassador to the UN issued a fervent call Wednesday for “long overdue” admission of his country to the UN, Anadolu Agency reports. Riyad Mansour spoke at the UN General Assembly session on the veto of the draft resolution for Palestine’s UN membership and stressed that one cannot support a two-state solution while standing idle. “An immediate ceasefire, long called for by this assembly and demanded by the Security Council is indispensable,” he said, asserting that atrocities against Palestinians must be promptly stopped. Mansour lamented the “methodical devastation” and “unprecedented scale of destruction in Gaza”, depicting it as integral to efforts aimed at dismantling the Palestinian nation through displacement and death. He underscored that the admission of Palestine to […]

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