RAMALLAH, Thursday, November 15, 2018 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas signed on Thursday accession papers to a number of international organizations and conventions.

These included:

Universal Postal Union

Convention on the Nationality of Married Women

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Basel Protocol on Liability and Compensation for Damage Resulting from Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal

Vienna Convention of Road Traffic

Protocol concerning countries or territories at present occupied

Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages

Agreement Establishing the Common Fund for Commodities

International Convention on the Arrest of Ships

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