Excellency,
I write to you today regarding an issue that has been already raised by the Chairs of the Arab Group and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on behalf of their Member States, respectively in letters conveyed on 18 May 2016 to Your Excellency, about the display of a panel depicting Occupied East Jerusalem as “The Spiritual and Physical Capital of the Jewish People” as part of a larger provocative Israeli exhibit at the United Nations in New York.
While we had hoped that the collective, multilateral approach undertaken by the Arab Group and the OIC would have resulted in rectification of the situation, it regrettably has not as of today, obliging us to once again draw your attention to the matter, to express our vehement rejection of such a depiction, and to reiterate the calls made by the Arab Group and the OIC for the removal of the said provocative panel on Jerusalem. We must add that any references to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, which purport to assert Israeli sovereignty on this land, must also be removed from the exhibit. [Read more…]
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