{"id":116135,"date":"2017-09-22T18:38:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=116135"},"modified":"2017-10-25T20:05:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:05:20","slug":"general-assembly-general-debate-15th-to-18th-meetings-press-release-ga11951-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/general-assembly-general-debate-15th-to-18th-meetings-press-release-ga11951-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"General Assembly General Debate (15th to 18th Meetings) &#8211; Press Release (GA\/11951) (Excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-field-symbol field-type-taxonomy-info\">\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right\">SEVENTY-SECOND SESSION,\u00a015TH TO 18TH MEETINGS (AM, PM &amp; NIGHT)<br \/>\nGA\/11951<br \/>\n22 SEPTEMBER 2017<\/h6>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Statements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>KHEMAIS JHINAOUI, Minister for Foreign Affairs of\u00a0<u>Tunisia<\/u>,&#8230;More broadly, he called for resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict centred on the prompt establishment of an independent Palestinian State.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ABDELKADER MESSAHEL, Minister for Foreign Affairs of\u00a0<u>Algeria<\/u>,..also voiced support for the rights of the Palestinian people to establish an independent State.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MARGOT WALLSTR\u00d6M, Minister for Foreign Affairs of\u00a0<u>Sweden<\/u>, said&#8230;Efforts must also be made to implement the two-State solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>THOMAS MOTSOAHAE THABANE, Prime Minister of\u00a0<u>Lesotho<\/u>, said&#8230;The business of decolonization remained unfinished, he said, citing the questions of Western Sahara and Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LOUIS STRAKER, Deputy Prime Minister of\u00a0<u>Saint Vincent and the Grenadines<\/u>, said &#8230;Similarly, threats posed by tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the Gulf States and the State of Palestine required persistent and prioritized diplomacy.\u00a0 Frustration with the pace of negotiation and mediation should not lead to quick military fixes of political problems, or interpretations of sovereign self-interest that justified trampling the sovereignty of other States, he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He also called for addressing the&#8230;recognition of the national rights of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>WILFRED ELRINGTON, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of\u00a0<u>Belize<\/u>, &#8230;noted the injustice perpetrated upon the people of \u201cTaiwan\u201d, Cuba, Palestine, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>NIKOS KOTZIAS, Minister for Foreign Affairs of\u00a0<u>Greece<\/u>, said&#8230;a two-State solution was the only way to approach the unsustainable situation between Israel and the State of Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ABDULLAH BIN ZAYED AL NAHYAN, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the\u00a0<u>United Arab Emirates<\/u>, said&#8230;International efforts to achieve peace in the region would not be successful without ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian and Arab territories, which had lasted over seven decades, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>AUR\u00c9LIEN AGBENONCI, Minister for Foreign Affairs of\u00a0<u>Benin<\/u>, said\u00a0On the Middle East, he said the creation of the Palestinian State living side by side with Israel would undoubtedly reduce tensions in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PEHIN LIM JOCK SENG, Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade II of\u00a0<u>Brunei Darussalam<\/u>, said&#8230;Peace, freedom, justice and self-determination were fundamental rights of the Palestinian people, he said, adding that the Â鶹APP had a moral and legal obligation to enforce such rights and ensure accountability for actions that contravened international law.\u00a0 \u201cWe have to press on with all effort in translating the growing international recognition of the State of Palestine into positive changes on the ground, so that Palestinians can pursue sustainable development in their own homeland,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>DATO SRI ANIFAH AMAN, Minister for Foreign Affairs of\u00a0<u>Malaysia<\/u>,&#8230;The plight of some 5\u00a0million Palestinian refugees must not be ignored.\u00a0 The international community must provide financial assistance to the Â鶹APP Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>KHEMAIS JHINAOUI, Minister for Foreign Affairs of\u00a0<u>Tunisia<\/u>,&#8230;More broadly, he called for resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict centred on the prompt establishment of an independent Palestinian State.<\/p>\n<p>\/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For information media. 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