COPENHAGEN: The EU desires the US to rethink its decision to deny visas to Palestinian officials looking for to attend subsequent month’s UN Basic Meeting, the bloc’s high diplomat mentioned on Saturday (Aug 30).
“Within the mild of the prevailing agreements between the UN and its host state, all of us urge for this resolution to be reconsidered,” Kaja Kallas mentioned on Saturday following a gathering of EU overseas ministers in Copenhagen.
Kallas invoked “worldwide legislation” in calling for Washington to reverse the extraordinary step, which additional aligns US President Donald Trump’s administration with Israel’s authorities because it wages struggle in Gaza.
The US transfer comes as France is main a push to recognise the Palestinian state on the gathering of world leaders in New York – and France’s overseas minister Jean-Noel Barrot spoke out in protest forward of the Denmark talks.
“A UN Basic Meeting assembly … shouldn’t be topic to any restrictions on entry,” Barrot informed reporters.
A string of ministers in Copenhagen echoed France’s name for the US to permit entry to the Palestinian delegation.
The Palestinian Authority has likewise known as for the US to reverse its resolution, which it mentioned “stands in clear contradiction to worldwide legislation and the UN Headquarters Settlement”.
Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas, a veteran 89-year-old chief who as soon as had cordial relations with Washington, had deliberate to attend the UN assembly.
Underneath an settlement as host of the United Nations in New York, the US shouldn’t be purported to refuse visas for officers heading to the world physique.
