Dr Nasri Abujaish, Ambassador of the State
of Palestine Tanzania
THE Ambassador of the State
of Palestine to Tanzania Dr Nasri Abu Jaish has praised Tanzanian's role in the struggle for the independence of Palestine since time immemorial.
"I would like to thank all the 138
countries that voted in favour of the State of Palestine. They are from Africa,
Asia, South and Latin America and part of Europe," he said.
He added that in particular he would like to express his sincere gratitude to Tanzania for
the principled stand they took by voting in favor of the State of Palestine.By
so doing they have once again demonstrated the historic solidarity between the
people of Tanzania and Palestine
Dr Nasri was speaking to journalists in his office in Dar es Salaam on Friday afternoon.
According to him, Palestinians, with peace and freedom lovers all over the world, are today celebrating the historic victory
after the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted overwhelmingly to
upgrade State of Palestine to
non-member state.
Yesterday, November 29, 2012 the UN voted 138 in favour Palestine. The vote is a long-sought victory for the Palestine which has at last been granted its birth certificate after 65 years of resistence against Israeli occupation, confiscation, expulsion and genocide. With this vote the State of Palestine can now live peacefully and side by side with Israel.
Unfortunately eight countries
voted against the resolution and 41 abstained. This goes againt their principle
of democracy and human rights. While they claim to stand for freedom of the
nations they deny the same to Palestinians.
Sixty-five years ago, the United
Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181, which partitioned the land of
historic Palestine into two states and this became the birth certificate for
Israel. Yesterday the General Assembly issued a birth certificate of the
reality of the State of Palestine.
It is a global victory for human
rights, freedom, national self-determination, peace and justice. With this the
world says “enough of occupation and oppression”
Having earned the non-member state status, Palestine will now have access to UN agencies and the International Criminal Court where it could prosecute Israel for its war crimes and crime against humanity. Political prisoners will now be treated as prisoners of war (POW) under the 4th Geneva Convension.
Having earned the non-member state status, Palestine will now have access to UN agencies and the International Criminal Court where it could prosecute Israel for its war crimes and crime against humanity. Political prisoners will now be treated as prisoners of war (POW) under the 4th Geneva Convension.
With yesterday’s UNGA vote Israeli occupation is effectively defeated and the State of Palestine and the Palestinians have won. It clearly shows that the world has sided with justice and peace and is against the occupation.
We now hope that with the
enhancement of the State of Palestine the Security Council will respond to the resolution submitted in
2011 to grant Palestine full membership in the UN and reafirm its intention to
achieve a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 borders.
With this new situation, we are
now ready to resume the negotiation with Israel on issues of illegal
settlements, Jerusalem, borders, refugees, water and other resources.
