May 15. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Washington has reported that representatives of the US mission to the UN will not attend the commemoration for the 75th Nakba Day held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday, alleging that they do not support “events organized or in support of of institutional anti-Israel bias”.
The US mission has highlighted in a statement that the “anti-Israel bias” that exists in the United Nations system is “counterproductive for peace.” “The United States continues to recognize the plight of the Palestinian refugees,” he added, according to the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’.
“The United States supports actions at the UN that unite the parties and lay the foundation for a negotiated two-state solution and has focused on encouraging the parties to take steps to reduce tensions and restore mutual trust,” it has settled. .
For his part, the Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, already called the day before to boycott the day for being a “distortion of history.” “Anyone who participates eliminates any possibility of reconciliation,” he said.
The day, which is usually accompanied by acts in support of the Palestinians and protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has been officially celebrated since 1998, following a decree by the then Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of these events.
This year’s events –which will include one at the United Nations headquarters in New York by the UN Committee for the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) and the Palestinian mission to the organization and a solidarity concert in Madrid–arrive amid a new rise in tensions in the region.
