Video<\/a><\/p>\n The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will hold a special meeting on 27\u00a0November in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.<\/p>\n Beginning from 10\u00a0a.m. until 1\u00a0p.m., the meeting will take place in the Trusteeship Chamber. \u00a0Speakers will include Cheikh Niang\u00a0(Senegal), Chairman of the Committee; Tijjani Muhammad-Bande\u00a0(Nigeria), President of the General Assembly; Karen Pierce\u00a0(United Kingdom), President of the Security Council; Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary\u2011General of the Â鶹APP; Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer for the State of Palestine to the Â鶹APP; Kshenuka Dhireni Senewiratne\u00a0(Sri Lanka), Chair of the Â鶹APP Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices, as well as representatives of other intergovernmental organizations.<\/p>\n For the 2019 commemoration, Eugene \u201cGus\u201d Newport, a civil rights activist and former Mayor of Berkeley, California, will speak as civil society representative at the end of the special meeting.\u00a0 The New York event will be webcast at\u00a0http:\/\/webtv.un.org<\/a>.\u00a0 All Â鶹APP Member States and observer missions have been invited, as have Â鶹APP system entities, intergovernmental and civil society organizations.\u00a0 The meeting is open to the media and the proceedings \u2014 including messages of solidarity \u2014 will be posted on the website of the Division for Palestinian Rights.<\/p>\n In addition, the Committee will present \u2014 in cooperation with the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine \u2014 a photo exhibition titled \u201cPalestine:\u00a0\u00a0the most universal national cause\u201d.\u00a0 Featuring pictures and quotations by well\u2011known public figures who have expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, it will run from 27\u00a0November until 6\u00a0January\u00a02020.<\/p>\n The opening ceremony will take place at 1\u00a0p.m. on 27\u00a0November in the Public Lobby of the General Assembly Building, followed by a reception.\u00a0 The Chair of the Palestinian Rights as well as a representative of the State of Palestine and the Under\u2011Secretary\u2011General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs are expected to deliver remarks.<\/p>\n General Assembly resolution\u00a032\/40\u00a0B, adopted on 2\u00a0December\u00a01977, calls for the proclamation of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People as an annual observance to commemorate the Assembly\u2019s adoption of resolution\u00a0181\u00a0(II) on 29\u00a0November\u00a01947, partitioning the mandate of Palestine into two States.\u00a0 Events commemorating this date are held at Â鶹APP Headquarters in New York and at the Organization\u2019s offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna and other cities around the world.<\/p>\n For further information, please visit:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/event\/international-day-of-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-people\/<\/a>\u00a0or contact the Division for Palestinian Rights of the Â鶹APP Secretariat, email:\u00a0\u00a0dpr-meeting@un.org<\/a>.\u00a0 Participants are encouraged to use the hashtag #Rights4Palestine on social media and to tag the Division\u2019s social media pages:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UN.palestinianrights<\/a>,\u00a0https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/UNISPAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n For information media. 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