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Division for Palestinian Rights DIVISION FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS SPECIAL BULLETIN ON THE COMMEMORATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE 2013 ii i Contents Page I. Commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 1 II. Texts of statements made and messages delivered on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 2013 Abdou Salam Diallo (Senegal), Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 3 John Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda), President of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly 4 Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations; message delivered by Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations 6 Liu Jieyi (China), President of the Security Council for the month of November 2013 7 Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and Mohammed 9 Assaf, Regional ambassador for youth for UNRWA Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization; message 11 delivered by Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations Palitha T.B. Kohona (Sri Lanka), Chair of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other 14 Arabs of the Occupied Territories Hassan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries; message delivered by Mohammad 15 Khazaee, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations ii Page Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Djibouti, in his capacity as Chair of the thirty-ninth session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the 17 Organization of Islamic Cooperation; message delivered by Kadra Ahmed Hassan, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Djibouti to the United Nations Hailemariam Dessalegn, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, in his capacity as Chairman of the African Union; message delivered by Tekeda Alemu, Permanent 19 Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations Nabil Elaraby, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States; message delivered by Ahmed Fathalla, Permanent Observer for the League of Arab States to the United Nations 20 David Wildman, Executive Secretary for Human Rights and Racial Justice with the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Global Ministries, on behalf of 22 civil society organizations active on the question of Palestine Feda Abdelhady-Nasser, Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations 26 Closing remarks by Abdou Salam Diallo, Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 27 III. Messages received on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People A. Messages from Heads of State or Government Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan 27 Cristina Fernández, President of Argentina 28 King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa of Bahrain 28 Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh 30 Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil 31 Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah of Brunei Darussalam 31 Xi Jinping, President of China 32 Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly 33 of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Adly Mansour, Interim President of Egypt 33 iii Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India 34 Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia 35 Hassan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran 35 Khudier Alkhuzae, Vice-President of Iraq 37 King Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein of Jordan 37 Choummaly Sayasone, President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic 39 General Michel Sleiman, President of Lebanon 39 Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia 40 Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, President of Maldives 41 King Mohammed VI of Morocco 41 Hifikepunye Pohamba, President of Namibia 43 Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan 43 Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, Amir of Qatar 44 Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation 45 Macky Sall, President of Senegal 45 James Michel, President of Seychelles 46 Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa 47 Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka 47 Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand 48 Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey 49 Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates 50 Truong Tan Sang, President of Viet Nam 51 Abdourabuh Mansour Hadi, President of Yemen 51 iv B. Messages from Governments Belarus 53 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 53 Ghana 54 Guinea 54 Guyana 55 Tunisia 55 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 56 C. Messages from Ministers for Foreign Affairs Ramtane Lamamra, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Algeria 57 Marcelino Medina Gonzalez, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba 58 Marco Albuja Martínez, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ecuador 60 Arnold J. Nicholson, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica 60 Fumio Kishida, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan 61 Andriatiana Jaques Ulrich, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Madagascar 62 Zahabi Ould Sidi Mohamed, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mali 63 José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mexico 63 Prince Saud Al Faisal, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia 63 Walid al-Moallem, Minister for Foreign Affairs and expatriates of the Syrian 64 Arab Republic D. Messages from intergovernmental organizations having received a standing invitation to participate as observers in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly and maintaining permanent offices at Headquarters European Union 65 Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, 67 Secretary-General v E. Messages from civil society organizations Caritas (Jerusalem) 68 Forum of European Local Authorities for Palestine (France) 69 Israel-Palestine NGO Working Group at the United Nations (New York) 72 Mennonite Central Committee (New York) 72 Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (New York) 74 Society for Austro-Arab Relations (Vienna) 74 World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA) 76 1 I. COMMEMORATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE On 29 November 2013, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was observed at United Nations Headquarters in New York and at the United Nations Offices at Geneva and Vienna, as well as in several other cities, in accordance with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 32/40 B of 2 December 1977. All States Members of the United Nations, observers, intergovernmental organizations and specialized agencies were invited to attend the special meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. At the meeting, statements were made by Abdou Salam Diallo (Senegal), Chair of the Committee; John Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda), President of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly; Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, who read a message from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon; and Liu Jieyi (China), President of the Security Council for the month of November 2013. The Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, read out a message on behalf of Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization. In addition, Palitha T.B. Kohona (Sri Lanka) made a statement in his capacity as Chair of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories. In addition, Mohammad Khazaee, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, delivered a message from Hassan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries; Kadra Ahmed Hassan, Deputy Permanent Representative of Djibouti to the United Nations, read out a message from Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Djibouti, in his capacity as Chair of the thirty-ninth session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC); Tekeda Alemu, Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations, read out a message from Hailemariam Dessalegn, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, in his capacity as Chairman of the African Union; and Ahmed Fathalla, Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States to the United Nations, delivered a message from Nabil Elaraby, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States. David Wildman, Executive Secretary for Human Rights and Racial Justice with the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Global Ministries, also addressed the meeting on behalf of civil society organizations active on the question of Palestine. Closing remarks were made by Feda Abdelhady-Nasser, Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations. On the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People received messages from 28 Heads of State, 5 Heads of Government, 7 Governments and 10 Ministers for Foreign Affairs, as well as from the European Union and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Messages were received from six non-governmental organizations. The special meeting was followed by the showing of a film entitled State 194, directed by Dan Setton and produced by Elise Pearlstein. A cultural event, a concert featuring two Palestinian singers, Nai Barghouti and Mohammed Assaf, Regional Youth Ambassador of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine 2 Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and winner of the 2013 edition of the television show Arab Idol, was presented under the auspices of the Committee in cooperation with the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations and UNRWA. At the United Nations Office at Geneva, a special meeting was held on 29 November 2013.
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