Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is set to visit the UN within two weeks to address the Security Council on his rejection of the new US Mideast plan
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech following the announcement by the US President Donald Trump of the Mideast peace plan, in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on January 28, 2020.
"We will try our best with our friends to have the strongest possible draft resolution and to receive the strongest and largest possible voting in favour of that resolution," Mansour said. "Of course we would like to see a strong, large opposition to this Trump plan," he said with Tunisian UN Ambassador Moncef Baati, currently serving a two-year term on the Security Council, standing beside him.
Israel's UN mission signaled on Tuesday that it was preparing for the Palestinians to pursue UN action, saying in a statement that it was "working to thwart these efforts, and will lead a concerted diplomatic campaign with the US" At that meeting, the General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for Trump's declaration to be withdrawn. Days earlier a similar draft text had been vetoed by the United States in the 15-member UN Security Council.
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