Mahmoud Abbas' Speech at the UN Part 3 of 3

September 23, 2011 from Al Jazeera English

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York. Abbas on Friday handed over a historic request to UN chief Ban Ki-moon asking the United Nations to admit the state of Palestine as a full member. This is the third part of his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

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UN General Assembly

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United Nations

The United Nations is the world's largest, foremost, and most prominent international organization. The stated aims of the United Nations include promoting and facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human r... Explore this topic

Mahmoud Abbas

Mahmoud Abbas, also known by the kunya Abu Mazen, an Arab of the Sunni-Muslim faith, has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005 on the Fatah ticket. Mahmoud... Explore this topic

Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic servic... Explore this topic

State of Palestine

The State of Palestine is a state that was proclaimed on 15 November 1988 by the Palestine Liberation Organization's National Council in exile in Algiers which unilaterally adopted the Palestinian Declaration of Independence. It claims the Palestinian territories and has desig... Explore this topic

Palestine

Palestine (Arabic: فلسطين‎ Filasṭīn, Falasṭīn, Filisṭīn; Greek: Παλαιστίνη, Palaistinē; Latin: Palaestina; Hebrew: פלשתינה Palestina) is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various ad... Explore this topic

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians that began in the early 20th century. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between the Zionist yishuv and the ... Explore this topic

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