CAIRO – Egypt Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Osama Mahmoud Abdel Khalek asserted Egypt’s full backing of the legitimate rights of Palestinian people and its rejection of any attempts to undermine the two-state solution.
These remarks were made during Egypt’s participation in a UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) with the participation of UN Secretary General António Guterres, according to a statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.
Ambassador Osama said CEIRPP meeting acquires special importance in light of the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territories and the rise in tensions over the past phase as a result of the Israeli settlement practices. He said such practices aim at changing the status quo on the ground and undermining the two-state solution and any bases for a political settlement in the future.
He also voiced Egypt’s condolences to the martyrs of the Israeli incursions into Naplus.
Ambassador Osama also appreciated CEIRPP’s efforts to back the Palestinian issue via its various activities, calling for continuing to place the Palestinian issue on the agenda of the international community till the Palestinian people attains their freedom and independence till the lines of June 4th, 1967 with east Jerusalem as its capital.
He also reiterated that Egypt will remain committed to defending the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and their just cause as it has always been paying a dear price for it, voicing confidence that Egypt will one day celebrate the Palestinian people attaining their freedom they have been waiting for a long time.
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