By Anadolu Staff
ANKARA / ISTANBUL (AA) – The US move to cancel visas for the Palestinian president and officials ahead of the annual UN General Assembly meeting is “unjust,” the Turkish Justice and Development (AK) Party’s spokesman said Saturday.
“The US administration’s cancellation of the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian officials who were to attend the UN General Assembly is an unjust decision that undermines diplomacy,” Omer Celik said on Turkish social media platform NSosyal.
Celik said the decision undermined the UN’s role as a platform where the voices of all states are heard.
He stressed that preventing a legitimate authority invited to the US General Assembly was “an attempt to render the UN meaningless.”
“Trying to silence Palestine in the face of growing international support for a two-state solution will damage peace efforts," Celik said, emphasizing that the “demand that the Palestinian Authority withdraw its applications to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ), and halt its efforts for the recognition of the State of Palestine, is unjust and unlawful in every respect."
Quoting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Celik said: “The world is bigger than five, and no one will be able to silence Palestine’s voice.”
He underlined that Erdogan’s address at the General Assembly would remain “the strongest voice for the Palestinian cause.”