RAMALLAH, August 30, 2018 (WAFA) - Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad Malki said on Thursday that President Mahmoud Abbas is going to stress in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly next month the Palestinians’ categorical rejection of American-Israeli plans aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause through the so-called deal of the century.
Malki told the official Voice of Palestine radio that Abbas would stress that the alternative to the US-Israeli plan is the peace plan he presented last February to the Security Council.
President Abbas called for an international peace conference to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with a multilateral mechanism for implementation as an alternative to American mediation after the Palestinians have declared the United States unfit to oversee the peace process after it recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and plans to end the Palestinian refugee issue in order to get them off the negotiations table.
Malki said that the leadership will take steps to mobilize support for the president’s speech.
He stressed that the leadership will face the US administration and its plans to liquidate the Palestinian issue through two tracks - political and diplomatic in the United Nations and the legal path, which has the power to be implemented and Washington cannot veto.
He said the Palestinians will respond to US President Donald Trump’s speech at the UN if he announced his “deal of the century” either through a press conference or through Abbas’ speech, which comes two days after Trump‘s address.
He pointed out that the leadership discussed all these issues and that it is working within a crisis team established since the first day of Trump’s declaration that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
He added that the Palestinians will provide alternatives to what the American administration is doing, which is based on force and the policy of bullying led by the US president.
Malki pointed out that Palestine is not the only country affected by this American policy, calling on all countries affected by it to unite their ranks to be able to confront it.
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