Palestine National Council (PNC) praised the response and wide international support for President Mahmoud Abbas initiative to hold an international peace conference. The response was clearly and publicly reflected in the statements of the representatives of the member states of the UN Security Council.
In a press statement issued today, Tuesday, PNC added that what happened in the Security Council yesterday, Monday, proves once again the global adherence to the decisions of international legitimacy and the appeal to international law, and refusing to replace them with other references as the delegate of US Trump’s Administration tried to promote. The delegate appeared isolated in her positions.
The positions of the overwhelming majority in the Security Council confirmed their rejection of annexation and settlement and the violation of human rights in Palestine, PNC affirmed, and that the key to security and peace in the region is the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, return and establishing their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions.
PNC continued that the President's initiative to hold an international peace conference under the auspices of the United Nations has become an international quest that only Israel and Trump’s Administration oppose, and has been persistently violating international law and leaping over relevant United Nations resolutions, including the Arab Peace Initiative, that the American UN delegate said that it is no longer necessary and not needed, and the alternative is the "Deal of the Century", which is rejected by the United Nations General Assembly.
Trump’s Administration has no right to override the Arab peace initiative, which has become part of the UN Security Council resolutions, PNC stressed, what the American UN delegate describes as the new horizons for the Palestinians that were opened by Trump's deal is nothing but misleading and rejected altogether, because that deal is a mere recipe for war and instability in the region due to its violation of Security Council resolutions of the rights of Palestinian people, and the deal is a complete bias towards the Israeli occupation.