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| Palestinians to ask UN to pass Gaza war report |
| 2009-10-07 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was on Tuesday "seriously studying" the possibility of asking that a United Nations Gaza war report be passed on to the Security Council, a senior Palestinian official said as he accused Tel Aviv of deliberately creating tension in East Jerusalem to tighten its grip on the disputed city. "President Abbas is seriously studying the possibility of asking the Arab and Islamic bloc to officially take the Goldstone report to international bodies, including the U.N. General Assembly and the Security Council," chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP in a phone call from Amman. The move appeared to mark a change in position, as the Palestinian delegation on Friday backed a move at the U.N. Human Rights Council to defer a vote on whether the report should be passed on. Erakat said Abbas's decision came "in light of the controversy that has arisen" around the report, which accused Israel and Palestinian armed groups of committing war crimes during the three-week land, air and sea assault on Gaza that Israel started on Dec. 27. "We want to discuss the report in international bodies so they will take decisions on what emerged in the report, in order to insure that the crimes committed by Israel against our people are never repeated," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 See also BHARAT RAKSHAK > IS GAZA TURNING INTO ANOTHER WAZIRISTAN? * ION SAME [paraph] > PREPARE PLANS FOR POSSIBLE SEPARATE HOMELAND FOR MUSLIMS: CENTRE TOLD [Bangladesh-suppor Muslim groups in NE INDIA]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-07 01:37 |