UN General Assembly: Ambassador Bendjama calls on Member States to back Palestine's historical draft resolution
The Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Amar Bendjama, called Tuesday, in New York, to back the “historical” draft resolution presented by the State of Palestine to the General Assembly (GA) to end the occupation and allow the Palestinian people to enjoy all their rights.
This statement was made during the participation of Ambassador Amar Bendjama in the meeting of the 10th extraordinary emergency session on Palestine, held on Tuesday and Wednesday, and which is expected to result in a vote on a resolution presented by Palestine, for the first time in the history of the UN, demanding the implementation of the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of July 19, 2024, according to which the presence of the Zionist entity in the occupied Palestinian territories is “illegal and must end.”
Bendjama emphasized the need for the “full” implementation of ICJ’s advisory opinion, calling on all member countries to support the historical draft resolution presented by the State of Palestine to the UN General Assembly, which outlines a “clear” roadmap aimed at ending the occupation and allowing the Palestinian people to enjoy all their rights.
Highlighting the importance of multilateral action in preserving the rights of the Palestinian people and their just cause, Ambassador Bendjama lamented the limitations of its mechanisms, including the UN itself, due to the inability to allow Palestinians to enjoy all their inalienable rights.
“Without international law and UN bodies, the Palestinian issue would have been forgotten in a world dominated by narrow interests, especially since multilateral action has shown its inability to enforce the resolutions of international law,” he said.
Bendjama attributed “this failure to the occupier that disregards international law due to a lack of accountability and sanctions and that acts above the law,” condemning “the Israeli occupier’s ongoing massacres and arrests in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as the desecration of holy places in Al-Quds, the forced displacement of its inhabitants, and the blatant denial of the rights of the Palestinian people, in an attempt to undermine the establishment of their state.”
Algeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN said that “ICJ’s advisory opinion , which refutes the occupier's narrative and exposes the racial segregation policies it practices, reaffirmed once again, the illegality of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the necessity to put an end to it.”
In this respect, Bendjama recalled the statement of the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who said: “We, advocates of just peace, are faced with the responsibility of ending the historical injustice of the Palestinian people, and this will only be possible if the occupation is forced to comply with the resolutions of the international law.”
“We must act together to defend international law. We must remain united for peace," he concluded.