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Full text of Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas’ address to the United Nations General Assembly, September 30, 2015

Thursday, 01 October 2015 14:53
Full text of Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas’ address to the United Nations General Assembly, September 30, 2015. (Unofficial translation from Arabic) In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful H.E. Mr. Mogens Lykketoft, President of the General Assembly, H.E Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Excellencies, Heads of Delegations Ladies and Gentlemen, I come before you today from Palestine, compelled to sound the alarm about the grave dangers of what is happening in Jerusalem, where extremist Israeli groups are committing repeated, systematic incursions upon Al-Aqsa Mosque, aimed at imposing a new reality and dividing Al- Haram Al-Sharif temporally, allowing extremists, under the protection of Israeli occupying forces and accompanying ministers and Knesset members, to enter the Mosque at certain times, while preventing Muslim worshipers from accessing and entering the Mosque at those times and freely exercising their religious rights.
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"The First-Ever Raising of Palestine's Flag at the U.N. Is Our Moment of Hope"

Wednesday, 30 September 2015 13:14

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NEW YORK, September 29, 2015 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday affirmed that the Palestinian flag will be raised for the first time at the United Nations headquarters in New York and at other U.N. offices around the world on September 30.

He wrote an op-ed, which was published on the Huffington Post, in which he said the sense of pride among the Palestinian people was overwhelming the day the world voted in favor of this landmark initiative.

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