Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Dr. Riyad Al-Maliki at the annual meeting of Arab foreign ministers, which is held on the sidelines of the work of the United Nations General Assembly in its high-level segment in New York. This meeting comes to coordinate Arab positions and priorities at the United Nations, especially with the start of the work of the General Assembly.
In this context, Minister Al-Maliki briefed his Arab counterparts on developments in the situation in the land of the State of Palestine, the crimes of the occupation and its settlers, and attempts to change the current historical and legal situation in the city of Jerusalem in light of the repeated incursions and intentions to impose the spatial and temporal division of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
In his speech before the ministerial meeting, Al-Maliki pointed out the importance of putting Arab resolutions, which are consensus resolutions on the central issue of the Arabs, the Palestinian issue, into implementation and returning the issue to the priorities of the international agenda. He also spoke about the obstacles, challenges, and shameful international silence based on adopting a policy of double standards and disrupting the accountability system. Granting Israel immunity from punishment and selectivity in implementing and applying the rules of international law. Stressing that there is no stability, security, or peace without realizing the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, most importantly their right to self-determination and the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes from which they were displaced in implementation of Resolution 194, national independence, and ending the Israeli colonial occupation.
In his speech, Al-Maliki stressed that ending the illegal Israeli occupation, dismantling the apartheid regime and the independence of the State of Palestine are legal, political and moral requirements for peace, justice and stability, and this is completely consistent with our international obligations and by relying on peaceful, political, legal and diplomatic means to restore the rights of the Palestinian people and achieve justice, freedom, peace and security. .
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates also united the basic headings of the Arab movement in supporting the Palestinian legal, political and diplomatic path, which is securing international protection for the Palestinian people, activating the process and tools of accountability and accountability for the Israeli occupation, supporting obtaining full membership in the United Nations and obtaining more recognition of the State of Palestine, and supporting the approach to a contract. An international peace conference, activating an international multilateral mechanism, and focusing on the importance of ending the Israeli colonial occupation and achieving the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, most notably self-determination, the return of refugees, and independence.
Al-Maliki also stressed the need for joint action to urge the international community to provide full support to UNRWA, including financial support, which contributes to the preservation of this important organization, until a just solution for refugees and their plight is reached in accordance with United Nations General Assembly Resolution No. 194.
In conclusion, Minister Al-Maliki thanked the sisterly Arab countries and the League of Arab States for their written pleadings to the International Court of Justice and their contributions to the unprecedented international interaction in the history of the Court, and called on them to complete this legal effort by submitting their responses to the negative pleadings presented by some countries to distort the truth and undermine the course of international justice, to emphasize the principles. Rooted in the Charter of the United Nations and consistent with the rights of peoples and the peremptory rules of international law, most notably the right of the people to self-determination and the inadmissibility of seizing lands by force
Source: Maan News Agency