UN Common Meeting votes 145-5, permitting President Mahmoud Abbas to deal with the UNGA subsequent week by video after the US denied him a visa.
Revealed On 19 Sep 2025
The United Nations Common Meeting has voted to permit Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to deal with its annual gathering of world leaders subsequent week by video hyperlink after america refused to grant him a visa to journey to New York in individual.
“The State of Palestine could submit a prerecorded assertion of its President, which might be performed within the Common Meeting Corridor,” mentioned the decision, which handed on Friday with 145 votes in favor, 5 opposed, and 6 abstentions.
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The transfer comes weeks after the Palestinian Authority urged Washington to reinstate Abbas’s visa in order that he might journey to america to steer the Palestinian delegation and handle the UNGA in individual.
Abbas was amongst 80 Palestinian officers whose visas had been revoked by the US State Division, citing nationwide safety issues.
The Common Meeting speeches are scheduled to start on Tuesday after leaders collect on Monday for a summit — hosted by France and Saudi Arabia — that goals to construct momentum in the direction of a two-state answer between Israel and the Palestinians.
“Gaza is problem primary on the UN Common Meeting,” Al Jazeera’s Diplomatic Editor James Bays reported from New York.
“All leaders come right here and provides their speeches. However on this event … Mahmoud Abbas has been denied a visa … which could be very uncommon.”
Bays mentioned the overwhelming vote in favour of Abbas addressing the UNGA by video was a “snapshot of worldwide opinion on Palestine and Gaza”, and that it confirmed “only a few international locations which are backing the facet of Israel and the US”.
The Trump administration’s resolution has acquired widespread criticism, with the UN asserting that it violates the Host Nation Settlement, beneath which the US is obligated to allow heads of state and authorities to journey to New York for annual conferences and diplomatic enterprise.
The US visa curbs come amid rising condemnation of Israel’s war on Palestinians within the Gaza Strip and a wave of Israeli settler and army violence within the occupied West Financial institution.
In response to Israel’s devastating assaults over the previous practically two years, an rising variety of international locations, primarily in Europe, have introduced intentions to again Palestinian statehood on the UN this September.
In accordance with native well being officers, Israel’s conflict on Gaza has killed at the very least 65,141 individuals and wounded 165,925 since October 2023, with 1000’s extra believed to be buried within the rubble.
