Iranian Speaker's Advisor Asks OIC, Arab League to Increase Support for Palestinian Nation

Rasa - Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian underlined the necessity for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League to boost support for the Palestinian nation after the UN Security Council adopted a resolution which asks Israel to stop building settlements on the Palestinian lands.

News ID: 426053

Date: 26 December 2016 - 17:40

RNA - "The Islamic countries' unified support for the UNSC resolution against the Zionist regime's settlement construction was the least measure which must have been taken," Amir Abdollahian said on Monday.

"Now, it's time for the OIC and the Arab League to take the opportunity and act upon their Islamic and humanitarian mission by supporting the oppressed Palestinian people loudly," he added.

Amir Abdollahian underscored that the issues of Palestine and freedom of Quds enjoy the potential to reunite the Muslim world.

Resolution 2334 was adopted on 23 December 2016 and concerns Israel's settlement activity on lands Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. The resolution calls the settlement activity a "flagrant violation" of international law that have "no legal validity" and demands Israel to stop such activity and to fulfill its obligation as an occupying power under the Fourth Geneva Convention.

The passage of the resolution was "met with applause in a packed chamber". It was the first UNSC resolution to pass regarding Israel and Palestine since 2009, and the first to address the issue of Israeli settlements with such specificity since Resolution 465 in 1980.

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