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Sunday, September 24, 2017
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Sunday, September 24, 2017
PA seeks to join Interpol at group’s general assembly this week
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsrael and the Palestinian Authority are engaged in a diplomatic battle over the PA’s efforts to join the international police agency Interpol at the group’s 86th General Assembly in Beijing that opens Tuesday.
The last Palestinian request for membership was rejected in a vote at the last general assembly last November, but the PA has been lobbying for a different result this time around.
The i24NEWS television network has reported that Palestinian police head Hazem Atallah met Interpol’s Secretary General Jurgen Stock in Lyon, France, last month to promote Palestinian membership.
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