Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed today the adoption by the UN General Assembly of a draft resolution submitted by the State of Palestine, calling on the Israeli occupation to end its "illegal presence in the occupied Palestinian territory" within 12 months.
He considered the Palestinian draft resolution's obtaining a two-thirds vote by the members of the UN General Assembly an international consensus on the justice of the Palestinian cause and a victory for the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state.
He stressed the importance of the resolution, which was based on international law and the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, the main judicial body of the United Nations, which confirmed the illegitimacy of the presence of Israel, the occupying power, in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The President appreciated the positions of the countries that voted in favor of the resolution and stood by the Palestinian right, and called on them to take individual and collective measures to compel Israel to implement the resolution, which calls on it to comply without delay with all its obligations under international law, including withdrawing all its military forces from the occupied Palestinian territory, ending its illegal policies and practices, including the immediate cessation of all new settlement activities and the evacuation of all settlers from the occupied Palestinian territory.
He also called for allowing all Palestinians who were displaced during the occupation to return to their original places of residence, and not to hinder the Palestinian people from exercising their right to self-determination, including their right to establish an independent sovereign state on the entire occupied Palestinian territory.
He issued instructions to the national team tasked with following up on this file to work on implementing the provisions of the resolution.
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