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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 2010 ii i Contents Page I. Commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian 1 People II. Texts of statements made and messages delivered on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 2010 Abdou Salam Diallo (Senegal), Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the 3 Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People Joseph Deiss (Switzerland), President of the sixty-fifth session of the General 4 Assembly Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations; message delivered by 5 Asha-Rose Migiro, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Mark Lyall Grant (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), 7 President of the Security Council for the month of November 2010 Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine 8 Liberation Organization and President of the Palestinian Authority; message delivered by Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations Palitha T.B. Kohona (Sri Lanka), Chair of the Special Committee to Investigate 11 Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, on behalf of the Movement of Non- 12 Aligned Countries; message delivered by Maged A. Abdelaziz, Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations Hamrokhon Zarifi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, in his capacity as 13 Chairman of the thirty-seventh session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference; message delivered by Sirodjidin M. Aslov, Permanent Representative of Tajikistan to the United Nations Oumar Daou, Permanent Representative of Mali to the United Nations, on 14 behalf of the African Group Amre Moussa, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States; message 15 delivered by Yahya A. Mahmassani, Permanent Observer for the League of Arab States to the United Nations ii Page Judith Le Blanc, Member of the Steering Committee of the United States 17 Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, on behalf of civil society organizations active on the question of Palestine Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations 19 Closing remarks by Abdou Salam Diallo, Chair of the Committee on the 20 Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 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 20 Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria 21 Cristina Fernández, President of Argentina 22 King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa of Bahrain 22 Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh 23 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil 24 Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah of Brunei Darussalam 25 Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State Council of China 26 Kim Yong Nam, President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 26 General Sékouba Konaté, interim President of Guinea 27 Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India 27 Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia 28 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran 29 King Abdullah bin Al Hussein of Jordan 30 Choummaly Sayasone, President of the Lao’s People’s Democratic Republic 32 iii Page Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia 33 King Mohammed VI of Morocco 33 Hifikepunye Pohamba, President of Namibia 34 Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III, President of the Philippines 35 Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar 35 Dmitry A. Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation 36 Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal 37 Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa 38 Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka 40 Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prime Minister of Thailand 40 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of Tunisia 41 Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey 41 Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania 42 Nguyen Minh Triet, President of Viet Nam 43 B. Messages from Governments Ghana 43 Guyana 44 Nigeria 44 Oman 45 C. Messages from Ministers for Foreign Affairs Phandu T.C. Skalemani, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International 46 Cooperation of Botswana iv Page María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia 47 Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba 47 Seiji Maehara, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan 48 Musa M. Abdussalam Kousa, Secretary of the General People’s Committee for 49 Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Hippolyte Rarison Ramaroson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Madagascar 50 Moctar Ouane, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation 50 of Mali Walid Al-Moualem, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic 51 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 52 Organization of the Islamic Conference: Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, 53 Secretary-General E. Message from a specialized agency of the United Nations system United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: 55 Irina Bokova, Director-General F. Message from a civil society organization Caritas Jerusalem 56 1 I. COMMEMORATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE On 29 November 2010, 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, intergovernmental organizations, specialized agencies and other observers 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; Joseph Deiss (Switzerland), President of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly; Asha-Rose Migiro, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, reading a message of Ban Ki- moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations; and Mark Lyall Grant (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), President of the Security Council for the month of November 2010. The Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, read out a message from Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President of the Palestinian Authority. 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, Maged A. Abdelaziz, Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations, delivered a message from Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, on behalf of the Movement of Non- Aligned Countries; Sirodjidin M. Aslov, Permanent Representative of Tajikistan to the United Nations, read out a message from Hamrokhon Zarifi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, in his capacity as Chairman of the thirty-seventh session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers; Oumar Daou, Permanent Representative of Mali to the United Nations, made a statement on behalf of the African Group; and Yahya A. Mahmassani, Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States to the United Nations, delivered a message from Amre Moussa, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States. Judith Le Blanc, member of the Steering Committee of the United States Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, also addressed the meeting on behalf of civil society organizations active on the question of Palestine. Closing remarks were made by Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, and Abdou Salam Diallo, Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. 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 26 Heads of State, 4 Heads of Government, 4 Governments, 9 Ministers for Foreign Affairs, as well as from the European Union, the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. A message was received from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a specialized agency of the United Nations system and from Caritas Jerusalem, a non-governmental organization. 2 The special meeting was followed by a performance by the Ashtar Theatre, entitled Gaza Monologues, in Conference Room 2-NLB. A photographic exhibit, “Summer Games in Gaza”, was presented by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations and under the auspices of the Committee. At the United Nations Office at Geneva, a special meeting was held on 29 November. The meeting was chaired by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Under-Secretary-General and Director General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, who opened the meeting by reading the
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