ANTALYA, November 12, 2026 (WAFA) – Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa held a series of separate bilateral meetings on Thursday with several world leaders and senior officials on the sidelines of the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), taking place in the Turkish city of Antalya.
The meetings were attended by Palestine's Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, and Palestinian Ambassador to Türkiye, Nasri Abu Jaish.
Mustafa met with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Algerian Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb, Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, and British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband.
During the meetings, Mustafa briefed the officials on the latest developments in Palestine and discussed the need to intensify international efforts and take effective action to protect the Palestinian people amid Israel's ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
He highlighted Israel's military occupation of more than 70% of Gaza's territory and its continued restrictions on the entry of humanitarian and relief supplies, further worsening the humanitarian catastrophe facing the population.
Mustafa also outlined the deteriorating situation in the occupied West Bank, citing daily attacks by Israeli settlers and occupation forces against Palestinians, their property and land, alongside escalating land seizures, settlement expansion and continued military incursions into Palestinian cities, towns and refugee camps.
He further addressed Israeli restrictions imposed through military checkpoints, iron gates and closures, which prevent Palestinian workers from reaching their workplaces, as well as Israel's continued withholding of Palestinian tax revenues, known as clearance funds.
He warned that these measures are deepening the Palestinian government's financial and economic crisis, undermining its ability to meet its obligations and provide essential services to citizens.
Mustafa also warned of Israeli efforts to impose new realities on the ground through settlement expansion, land confiscation and forced displacement, saying these measures threaten the Palestinian presence and undermine prospects for establishing an independent Palestinian state.
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