Arab League abandons Palestinian Authority plan to condemn UAE normalization with Israel

“Arab nations have rejected a draft solution presented through Palestine to condemn the standardization agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel,” according to a diplomatic source of the Palestinian Authority that met Wednesday with media, as cited through Turkish newscast Anews.

The source stated that it agreed not to come with a transparent condemnation of the standardization agreement; some foreign ministers, whom he did not call, have tried to bring up provisions that give legitimacy to the agreement. “In response, Palestine has presented a draft solution condemning the standardization agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel,” the source said. “However, the Arab countries,” he voted against the project. “

During a discussion at Wednesday’s normal assembly of foreign ministers representing the 22 Arab states that make up the Arab League, the agency’s secretary general, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, lobbied in a statement: “It is the country’s unwavering right to have sovereignty to achieve its foreign policy as it sees fit. This is all this board respects and approves. At the same time, we see safe values as principles of consensus,” he added, leaving open the question of what the values or principles might be. .

They came here in reaction to intense tension in the Arab League by palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, who insisted that the organization condemn the standardization agreement between Israel and the Emirates. Arab Emirates: member of the Arab League. ” Otherwise, we will be noticed as if we were giving her our blessing,” she said, “either conspiring with her, or looking to lift the canopy. “

In response, UAE Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash presses that his country’s resolve to identify diplomatic relations with Israel is a “sovereign” resolution, taken in accordance with the strategic interests of the United Arab Emirates.

The United Arab Union on Foreign Affairs said on a Wednesday: “Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, will lead a high-ranking delegation from the United Arab Emirates to Washington on 15 September at the invitation of the United States. President Donald Trump will participate in the rite of signing the historic peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel in the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

– OFM (@OFMUAE) September 8, 2020

The Arab League’s rejection of the Palestinian Authority’s solution to condemning the peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel is deeply significant.

The Arab League, which has so far continually supported the 2002 Saudi Peace Initiative, has necessarily launched to the United Arab Emirates for this new peace effort with the Jewish state, as well as a remarkable recommendation and creativity. And that of the administration Trump. Es recognition that repeated mistakes of more than five decades will have to be eliminated to reap the potential long-term benefits.

Too bad that the current leaders of the Palestinian Authority are unwilling to live in peace for the welfare of their people.

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