According to a source acquainted with the situation, the United States has refused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas an entry visa so he can attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week on Wednesday.
The State Department announced in a separate statement that it would refuse visas to officials with the Palestinian Authority (PA) and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) “as a consequence of their failure to reform, contrary to their commitments to the United States, and their ongoing activities that undermine the prospects for peace.” The statement did not name Abbas.
The PLO and PA have “again failed to live up to their commitments,” the State Department said in a statement on Wednesday. The agency added, “This includes starting and supporting actions at international organisations that undermine and contradict past pledges.
Washington also accused the groups of “taking actions to internationalise the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict including through the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ), attempting to bypass negotiations through seeking unilateral recognition, and continuing to pay stipends to terrorists and to glorify acts of terrorism and terrorists in public pronouncements and school textbooks.” It was approved by 142 UN members after the two-state solution summit, which was co-chaired by Saudi Arabia and France.
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