Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will address the United Nations’ top human rights body next week, the UN says.
“We expect that on October 28, here in Geneva, the Human Rights Council will hold a special meeting, (which) will feature an intervention by President Mahmoud Abbas from Palestine on the situation in the region,” UN spokesman Michele Zaccheo says.
He stresses that the event would not be a special session of the council, but rather a “meeting” lasting about one hour, including a speech by Abbas, but with no room for subsequent questions or debate.
Such a special meeting has been called only once before by the UN’s top rights body, when Chilean President Michelle Bachelet spoke to the council in 2007, Zaccheo said.
The announcement comes as UN chief Ban Ki-moon is expected to arrive in Israel and the Palestinian territories to try to calm nearly six weeks of escalating violence.
— AFP
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