The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Motion, Hamas, has hailed the choice by the African Union to droop Israel’s proposed observer standing on the worldwide organisation.
“The Israel query has been suspended for now,” defined a diplomat on the closing day of the AU’s annual summit in Addis Ababa. “As a substitute there can be a committee set as much as examine the difficulty.”
Hamas Spokesman Hazem Qasem known as on the committee “to behave consistent with the AU’s values and ideas primarily based on rejecting occupation and racial discrimination.” He additionally known as on its members to “endorse the Palestinian folks’s battle for his or her rights and self-determination.”
The positions taken and roles performed by all AU member states who pushed again towards granting observer standing to the occupation state was additionally praised by the Islamic motion. “This reiterates that they act consistent with this organisation’s real ideas of their steady assist for the reputable rights of the Palestinians.”
The choice to droop the observer state course of meant that the union prevented a potentially-damaging vote and unprecedented rift within the 55-member bloc.
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