{"id":150809,"date":"2018-07-05T20:52:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T20:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=150809"},"modified":"2020-07-22T00:51:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T04:51:08","slug":"oic-regrets-australia-withdrawing-aid-to-palestine-press-release","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/oic-regrets-australia-withdrawing-aid-to-palestine-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"OIC Regrets Australia Withdrawing Aid to Palestine &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is a non-United Nations document. The United Nations provides these documents only as a convenience for reference purposes, and the inclusion of a document does not imply the endorsement of its content by the United Nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Date: 05\/07\/2018<\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_sharing_toolbox\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oic-oci.org\/topic\/?t_id=19790&amp;t_ref=11389&amp;lan=fr\">fran\u00e7ais<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis_sharing_toolbox\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oic-oci.org\/topic\/?t_id=19789&amp;t_ref=11389&amp;lan=ar\">Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) expressed regret over Australian government\u2019s decision to halt direct financial aid to the government of the State of Palestine, faulting it as contrary to the principles of the UN charter and international law and a denial of the Palestinian people\u2019s right to cessation of the Israeli occupation of their territories and to their full enjoyment of freedom and independence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Secretary General Dr Yousef Al-Othaimeen said such decisions are a form of a collective punishment of the Palestinian people, and will further aggravate their economic and social conditions. He urged the world countries to step up financial support and aid for the Palestinian people to live in freedom, independence, peace and stability, in the interest of the region and the world at large.<\/p>\n<p>He also called on Australia to review its decision, as it emboldens Israel in its criminal practices and systematic terrorism against the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a non-United Nations document. The United Nations provides these documents only as a convenience for reference purposes, and the inclusion of a document does not imply the endorsement of its content by the United Nations. Date: 05\/07\/2018 fran\u00e7ais Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) expressed regret over Australian government\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/oic-regrets-australia-withdrawing-aid-to-palestine-press-release\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[678],"document-category":[2437,2433,1329,1338],"document-source":[2705,4798],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,1741],"entity":[1889,1985],"document-language":[6544,6542,6541],"class_list":["post-150809","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-australia","document-category-arabic-text","document-category-french-text","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-organization-of-islamic-cooperation-oic","document-source-state","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral","entity-state","document-language-arabic","document-language-english","document-language-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/150809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/150809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=150809"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=150809"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=150809"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=150809"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=150809"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=150809"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=150809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}