Archives for 30 September 2015

Statement by H.E. Mr. Mahmoud Abbas President of the State of Palestine at the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at its 70th Session, New York 30 September 2015

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. [Read more…]