Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends the meeting of the Palestinian Central Council, in Ramallah, in the West Bank August 15, 2018. (photo credit: REUTERS/MOHAMAD TOROKMAN)
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for all nations to combat terrorism after
gunmen blasted their way into a hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday.
At least one person was killed and eight wounded, hospital officials said.
The attack occurred as Abbas was in the middle of leading his meeting as chairman of the Group of 77 in New York.
He condemned the terrorism that takes place world wide on a daily basis. He said that “state of Palestine has adopted 83 protocols with 83 countries” throughout the world to put an end to this scourge.
But he made no mention of Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis nor did he take responsibility for them.
Those who will speak include: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry, Abbas, GA President María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, followed by statements from chairs of UN groups of member states.
For the Palestinians Tuesday’s G77 hand-over ceremony is one more small step toward broader international recognition of statehood.
The Group of 77 has recognized Palestine as a member state since 1976. But the UN had to upgrade the Palestinian status at the UN so that it could chair the group of developing countries.
Palestine is not a member state of the UN, but the UN has awarded it de-facto membership by considering it a non-member state.
In New York, Abbas has already said the United Nations must provide the Palestinians with an international protection force, he remarked on Monday.
Also on Monday, Abbas met with UN General Assembly president María Fernanda Garcés of Ecuador and briefed her, too, on the latest developments in the Palestinian arena.
In October, the UN General Assembly held a special vote to temporarily elevate the Palestinians’ status at the UN, so that it could take over the rotating chairmanship of the G77 for 2019.
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