{"id":36322,"date":"2021-01-28T18:42:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T13:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=36322"},"modified":"2021-01-28T18:42:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T13:12:13","slug":"palestinians-welcome-us-intentions-of-restoring-ties-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=36322","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians welcome US intentions of restoring ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">AFP<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Palestinian leadership on Wednesday welcomed the new US administration\u2019s intention to reopen the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington, closed under former president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the contents of the speech of the US administration\u2019s representative to the (UN) Security Council yesterday,\u201d Jibril Rajoub, a senior official in the ruling Fatah party, told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe opening of the east Jerusalem consulate, the reopening of the PLO office in Washington, and the new US administration\u2019s commitment to the two-state solution are welcome positive indicators,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, Washington\u2019s interim UN envoy Richard Mills said that newly sworn-in US President Joe Biden intended to \u201crestore credible US engagement with Palestinians as well as Israelis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden intended to \u201crestore US assistance programmes that support economic development and humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people and to take steps to re-open diplomatic missions that were closed by the last US administration,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Under Trump, the US had stopped supporting the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and closed the Palestinians\u2019 liaison office in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, the White House stepped up its support of Israel, recognising Jerusalem as its capital and declaring settlements should not be considered breach of international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe expect that the new administration will raise a red card to the Israeli unilateral expansionist steps on the ground, dictating realities to undermine any possibility for the emergence of a Palestinian independent sovereign state,\u201d Rajoub said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also on Wednesday, the Arab League\u2019s assistant secretary-general, Hossam Zaki, announced that member states\u2019 foreign ministers would meet in Cairo on February 8 to discuss Palestinian matters.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP The Palestinian leadership on Wednesday welcomed the new US administration\u2019s intention to reopen the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington, closed under former president Donald Trump. \u201cWe welcome the contents of the speech of the US administration\u2019s representative to the (UN) Security Council yesterday,\u201d Jibril Rajoub, a senior official in the ruling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}