On 29 November 2021, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 32/40 B of 2 December 1977, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (Solidarity Day) was marked by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People with a Special Meeting of the Committee where UN Members States expressed their solidarity with the Palestinian people, through messages by Heads of States and Government.
The Special Meeting was held in-person, in the General Assembly Hall, with some of the COVID-19 restrictions and limits to access to the UN compound.
For more information go the 2021 Solidarity Day page.
Cheikh Niang (left), Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations, chairs the special meeting of the General Assembly in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.