PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi (second from right) standing between Sweden‘s Special Envoy to the Middle East Peace Process Per Örnéus and Swedish Consul General Ann-Sofie Nilsson and Deputy Head of Mission Tomas Brundin (left). (Photo courtesy of Hanan Ashrawi‘s office).
 

RAMALLAH, June 13, 2018 (WAFA) – Hanan Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), stressed during a meeting on Wednesday in Ramallah with Sweden‘s Special Envoy to the Middle East Peace Process Per Örnéus the need for collective international effort to end the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip.

Ashrawi received Örnéus with Swedish Consul General Ann-Sofie Nilsson and Deputy Head of Mission Tomas Brundin.at the PLO Headquarters where she expressed her deep appreciation to the Swedish government for its continued principled stand in support of the Palestinian people, their human rights and collective aspirations for self-determination, freedom and equality.

She also thanked Sweden for its firm and long-standing commitment to backing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and for donating $58.5 million to the Agency in January.

Ashrawi and her guests discussed “the latest global and regional developments and Israel‘s mad rush to create facts on the ground and an apartheid system of occupation and discrimination, as well as the United States and its abysmal failure to securing a just peace and guaranteeing the rights of the Palestinian people under international law and international humanitarian law,” according to a press statement by Ashrawi’s office.

In that view, Ashrawi affirmed “the imperative of multilateral intervention and accountability and the urgent need for a rapid and collective international effort to end the military occupation and to eliminate its oppressive measures suffered by the Palestinians.”

In their conversation which was a follow-up meeting to previous meetings in both Ramallah and Stockholm, both parties also discussed the importance of enhancing their mutual cooperation and coordination in many areas throughout Palestine and abroad.

In addition, the internal situation was reviewed, as well as the need for reconciliation, elections and the revitalization of the political system in Palestine.

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