China’s FM urges UN to admit Palestinian state ‘to rectify prolonged historical injustice’

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a joint press conference with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, April 13, 2017. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a joint press conference with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, April 13, 2017. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

BEIJING — China’s foreign minister Wang Yi has said efforts to admit a Palestinian state into the United Nations were a move to rectify a prolonged injustice, state media Xinhua reporta.

He made the comments at a joint press conference with his Papua New Guinea counterpart during a visit to country.

“A prompt admission of Palestine into the United Nations is a move to rectify a prolonged historical injustice,” Xinhua quotes Wang as saying.

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