2 November 2015
GA/SHC/4148
States Must Bolster Efforts to Address Racist Fault-Lines, Foreign Fighter Trend,
Speakers Warn as Third Committee Debates Xenophobia, Self-Determination Rights
Seventieth Session, 37th & 38th Meetings (AM & PM)
Background
The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) met this morning to discuss the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, as well as the right of peoples to self-determination.
Interactive Debate
Mrs. DAYLENIS MORENO GUERRA (Cuba), … . In the Middle East, the Palestinian people had the right to establish their own State.
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BAKHTA SELMA MANSOURI (Algeria) … She was concerned that the right to self-determination remained inaccessible to the Sahrawi and Palestinian peoples.
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Mr. JABBAR (Iraq) condemned violations of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people, including the Israeli authorities’ settlement policy, and reiterated the importance of establishing a Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital.
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ALANOUD QASSIM M. A. AL-TEMIMI (Qatar) …. With regard to the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people, Israel was called upon to withdraw from the Occupied Territories including East Jerusalem.
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MOHAMMAD HASSANI NEJAD PIRKOUHIXXX (Iran) emphasized the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination. In that regard, clear signs of support had been shown to Palestinian people by the international community. Gaza, the biggest prison in the world, was an affront to humanity, he said. Illegal settlements had to stop and settlers should provide remedy to the victims.
Right of Reply
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Document Type: French text, Press Release
Document Sources: General Assembly, General Assembly Third Committee (Social Humanitarian and Cultural), United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI)
Subject: Self-determination
Publication Date: 02/11/2015