LONDON: Palestine faces “erasure” unless the international community does more to ensure the end of the conflict with Israel and the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state, Algeria’s foreign minister told the UN General Assembly on Monday.
This, and the threat Israel poses to its neighbors, are the most important issues on the agenda at the global forum, said Ahmed Attaf.
“Palestine faces the greatest threat ever today, which is the threat of erasure through annexation and displacement, as well as through suffocating the legitimate institutions that represent the Palestinian question, and that may also eliminate the two-state solution that has been the consensus on the issue,” he added.
“The threat isn’t limited to Palestine … The Israeli occupation is now loud and proud in its intention to revive what it calls Greater Israel.
“This situation makes it incumbent on the international community as a whole to uphold (its) responsibilities.”
