Today, Wednesday, at the presidential headquarters in the city of Ramallah, President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas received the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, who came to bid farewell on the occasion of the end of his term.

His Excellency briefed the UN envoy on the latest developments in the Palestinian territories and the efforts made by the Palestinian leadership to stop the comprehensive Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The President stressed the need for the United Nations to assume its responsibilities by implementing UN Security Council Resolution No. 2735, which calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, expediting the entry of aid into the Strip, a complete Israeli withdrawal from it, and enabling the State of Palestine to assume its full responsibilities in the Gaza Strip as well as in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

His Excellency also stressed the necessity of preventing the implementation of the decisions of the Israeli occupation authorities to stop the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the occupied Palestinian territories in East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, due to the serious political, legal and humanitarian dimensions of this decision.