Geneva – Information Office – 25 September
The State of Qatar reiterated its firms stances towards the Palestinian cause and its full support for the Palestinian people's right to self-determination and ending the occupation, stressing its backing for achieving a Palestinian national reconciliation and unity among the Palestinian people so as to liberate it and establish an independent sovereign state with East Jerusalem as its capital based on 1967 borders.
HE Ambassador Ali Khalfan Al Mansouri, the State of Qatar's permanent representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, made the remarks during a general discussion on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories as part of the 36th session of the Human Rights Council.
Qatar's permanent representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva reaffirmed the importance of the seventh article in the agenda of the Human Rights Council due to its significance in documenting and tackling the crimes and grave violations that Israel, as an occupation force, commits against Palestine and other Arab territories.
Ambassador Al Mansouri expressed the State of Qatar's condemnation of Israel's violations and racist policies and its arrogant treatment of international legitimacy resolutions, which indicates its unwillingness to be a true partner for peace, its insistence on challenging the international community, and its continued pursuit of undermining the two-state solution.
HE the ambassador stressed that Israel must understand that the Palestinian cause will not be marginalized despite the ongoing crises in the region because it is a central issue at the Arab, Muslim and global levels and will always be alive as long as the rights of the Palestinian people are stolen and violated.
Ending his address, the permanent representative urged the international community to shoulder its legal and ethical responsibilities towards the Palestinian people, end the Israeli occupation, stop all settlement activities and attempts to Judaize Jerusalem, end the unjust siege on Gaza Strip, and hold Israeli officials accountable for their crimes.