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Tuesday, September 1, 2015
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Israel opposes raising Palestinian flag at the UN
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsrael expresses strong opposition to a draft resolution that would allow the Palestinian flag to be raised at the United Nations ahead of the annual gathering of world leaders later this month.
Israel’s outgoing ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, appeals to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the General Assembly’s president, Sam Kutesa, to block the move, which would break with the UN practice of flying only the flags of member states.
Prosor says in a letter to the UN leaders that the Palestinian move was an attempt to “score easy and meaningless points at the UN” and that this was “not the path to statehood, this is not the way for peace.”
— AFP
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