Cairo: The Arab League welcomed on Saturday the resolutions issued by the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly on Palestine, which received wide international support and will be adopted later by the General Assembly.
The League's Assistant Secretary-General for Palestine and the Occupied Arab Territories Affairs Dr. Saeed Abu Ali, made the remarks in a statement, after the Special Committee on Decolonization concluded its work.
He also noted Palestine's request for a legal advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Israeli colonial occupation of Palestinian land and the repercussions of the ongoing occupation.
Abu Ali also referred to other decisions related to rejecting settlements and confirming their illegality, support for the return of refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) and the extension of its mandate, as well as a decision regarding the illegality of the Israeli occupation authority's imposition of its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Arab Golan, considering that "null and void." Abu Ali said that the decisions issued on the Palestinian issue "come in line with the historical international positions and resolutions issued by the United Nations that guarantee and support the rights of the Palestinian people." He pointed out that the "coming" Israeli right-wing government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu vows to escalate practices that undermine the two-state solution and international legitimacy and officially and publicly deny the rights of the Palestinian people.
Abu Ali said that the General Secretariat of the Arab League expresses its appreciation for positions taken by countries that supported and adopted the issuance of resolutions "in support of truth, justice and peace and an affirmation of the rule of law."