PALESTINE

Mon 03 Apr 2023 6:28 pm - Jerusalem Time

The "Foreign Ministry" welcomes the adoption by the Human Rights Council of Palestine's resolution on accountability

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and expatriates welcomed the adoption by the Human Rights Council , in its 52nd regular session, in its session today, Monday, of the first Palestine resolutions before the Human Rights Council and under the second item of its agenda, under the title of the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem , and the necessity of ensuring accountability and justice. .


The Foreign Ministry thanked the member states that voted in favor of the draft resolution submitted by the State of Palestine through our mission and brotherly and friendly countries and groups, and their vote reflects the principled position of the member states on the importance of questioning the colonial system, Israeli apartheid, with 38 countries voting in favor of the resolution, including sister Arab countries and important European countries. And Asian, and African, and with European consensus, 7 countries abstained (Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Cameroon, the Czech Republic, India, Nepal, and Georgia), and two countries were isolated by voting against (Malawi and the United States).


The Foreign Ministry expressed that the international consensus and positive vote on Palestine's decisions at this particular time constitutes a form of rejection of Israeli practices and crimes committed by the occupation forces or their tools represented in terrorizing settlers, and under a fascist government whose program is based on crimes against the Palestinian people and their rights. Voting is a mechanism for deterring the occupation, protecting the Palestinian people, and preserving their rights until their realization, leading to ending the Israeli colonial occupation and its racist regime. The Foreign Ministry stressed that these votes must be translated into steps for states to express their commitment to shoulder their responsibilities in ensuring accountability for criminals. perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people, and achieving justice and redress for the victims of our people and their families.


She affirmed that she will work hard to transform these decisions into effective steps by the countries of the international community to put them into practice, to deter, hold Israel accountable, work to protect the Palestinian people, ensure the implementation and respect of international law in the land of the State of Palestine and impose the foundations for ending colonialism and dismantling the Israeli apartheid. She stressed that the policy of double standards and selectivity in the implementation of the rules of international law will undermine the international system based on law, and that Palestinian diplomacy will not allow the rights of our Palestinian people, especially their rights to self-determination, independence, and return to be infringed.

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The "Foreign Ministry" welcomes the adoption by the Human Rights Council of Palestine's resolution on accountability