Palestine awards UN official for condemning Israel
Former UN Official Has Been Awarded People’s Highest Honor By The Palestinian President. The UN Official Was Forced To Resign Last Week After Authoring A Report That Accused Israel Of Establishing An “apartheid Regime.'
PTI Ramallah Updated on: 19 Mar 2017, 22:46 PM
Former UN official has been awarded people’s highest honor by the Palestinian president. The UN official was forced to resign last week after authoring a report that accused Israel of establishing an “apartheid regime.”
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said on Sunday that President Mahmoud Abbas had spoken to Rima Khalaf by phone and given her Palestine’s Medal of the Highest Honor in recognition of her “courage and support” for the Palestinian people.
A statement said Abbas “stressed to Dr Khalaf that our people appreciate her humanitarian and national position.”
Khalaf, a UN undersecretary-general, resigned on Friday after refusing to withdraw her report for the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.
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First Published : 19 Mar 2017, 22:24 PM
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