NEW YORK: Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas has said that there could be no peace in the Middle East without the rights of Palestinians and a two-state solution, Western media reported on Thursday.
Palestinian Leader to UN
Mahmud Abbas told the UN General Assembly that those who think that peace can prevail in the Middle East without the Palestinians enjoying their complete, legitimate rights would be mistaken. He appealed to the UN chief Antonio Guterres to call a global conference on creating a Palestinian state.
Mahmud Abbas said that a UN conference “may be the last opportunity to salvage the two-state solution and to stop the situation from deteriorating and threatening the security of the Middle East and the entire globe.
Earlier, Qatari emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Tuesday branded Israel’s treatment of the people of Palestine as tantamount to a “21st-century apartheid system in broad daylight”, Arab media reported. Speaking at the UN General Assembly, the emir of Qatar said it was “unacceptable” that Palestinians continued “to suffer under the yoke and stubbornness of Israeli occupation.”
He noted that the failure of the world to act against the Israeli occupation has provided an opportunity for Israel to challenge the basics of a two-state solution.
