ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan stated the USA ought to instantly revise its resolution to revoke the visas of Palestinian officers and bar them from attending the United Nations assembly in New York this month.
Washington stated final week it will not permit Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to journey to New York, the place a number of U.S. allies are set to recognise Palestine as a state.
The transfer “doesn’t match the United Nations’ raison d’etre,” Erdogan informed reporters on a return flight from China, in line with a readout from his workplace on Tuesday. “The choice must be urgently revised. The United Nations Normal Meeting exists for the problems of the world to be mentioned and for options to be discovered.”
“The Palestinian delegation not being on the Normal Meeting would solely please Israel,” he added. “What is predicted from the USA is to say ‘cease’ to Israel’s massacres, cruelty”.
(Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Modifying by Jonathan Spicer)