Palestinian UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour is withdrawing his bid for vice president of the UN General Assembly after the US threatened to revoke visas for the Palestinian delegation if he did not drop the bid, NPR reported.

A leaked State Department memo shows the U.S. threatened to revoke Palestinian visas if they pushed for a senior United Nations post.

In state department cable, Jerusalem embassy told to issue protest to Palestinian Authority leaders, warning ‘consequences will follow’ if they failed to comply