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🇷🇺🛬 FM Sergey Lavrov arrives in NYC to participate in the UNGA High Level Week meetings and events, including the General Debate.
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⚡️ Excerpts from the statement of the Russian Federation after the vote on granting of full membership in the UN to the State of Palestine:
This day could go down in history as the day when, after three-quarters of a century, the international community finally took the right step towards correcting the long-standing "historical injustice" towards Palestine and the legitimate aspirations of its heroic people.
☝️ After all, the essence of the matter was a simple question: are the Palestinians worthy of being part of the world family, participating fully in all decisions of international life? A question to which we have consistently answered in the affirmative, when we accepted Israel into the UN, and when we accepted dozens of states liberated from colonial oppression.
❗️ However, our American colleagues think differently.
By exercising the veto right for the fifth time since the escalation in Gaza, they have once again demonstrated their true attitude towards the Palestinians. For Washington, they do not deserve to have their own independent state. They are only an obstacle to the realization of Israel's interests.
That is why the United States is willing to turn a blind eye to Israel's crimes against the peaceful residents of Gaza, to ignore the illegal settlement activity of Jerusalem on the West Bank.
☝🏼 The goal is to break the will of the Palestinians, to compel them to unconditionally submit to the occupying power, to turn them into servants and second-class citizens, and perhaps even to eradicate them from their native territory.
#Russia #UNGA #Palestine
This day could go down in history as the day when, after three-quarters of a century, the international community finally took the right step towards correcting the long-standing "historical injustice" towards Palestine and the legitimate aspirations of its heroic people.
☝️ After all, the essence of the matter was a simple question: are the Palestinians worthy of being part of the world family, participating fully in all decisions of international life? A question to which we have consistently answered in the affirmative, when we accepted Israel into the UN, and when we accepted dozens of states liberated from colonial oppression.
❗️ However, our American colleagues think differently.
By exercising the veto right for the fifth time since the escalation in Gaza, they have once again demonstrated their true attitude towards the Palestinians. For Washington, they do not deserve to have their own independent state. They are only an obstacle to the realization of Israel's interests.
That is why the United States is willing to turn a blind eye to Israel's crimes against the peaceful residents of Gaza, to ignore the illegal settlement activity of Jerusalem on the West Bank.
☝🏼 The goal is to break the will of the Palestinians, to compel them to unconditionally submit to the occupying power, to turn them into servants and second-class citizens, and perhaps even to eradicate them from their native territory.
#Russia #UNGA #Palestine