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Politics : View from the Center and Left Middle East Annex

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From: S. maltophilia8/29/2025 3:11:43 PM
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The Trump administration bars Palestinian officials from next month’s U.N. General Assembly.

The move by Secretary of State Marco Rubio could be aimed at weakening discussion of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations meeting.Credit...David Dee Delgado/Reuters

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Friday that he would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to prevent them from attending the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York next month.

The visa ban applies to officials from the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization who are not based in the Palestinian mission at the U.N., the announcement said.

The State Department said Mr. Rubio was making the move to hold the two bodies “accountable for not complying with their commitments, and for undermining the prospects for peace.” The agency is demanding that they both “consistently repudiate...

nytimes.com

See those 2 big screens? They could easily be showing Zoom. And not just Abbas.
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