{"id":224544,"date":"2019-11-16T13:46:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T18:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=224544"},"modified":"2021-11-11T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T18:30:37","slug":"oic-welcomes-un-fourth-committees-consensus-and-positive-vote-on-renewal-of-unrwas-mandate-press-release","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/oic-welcomes-un-fourth-committees-consensus-and-positive-vote-on-renewal-of-unrwas-mandate-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"OIC Welcomes UN Fourth Committee\u2019s Consensus and Positive Vote on Renewal of UNRWA\u2019S Mandate &#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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oic-oci.org\/topic\/?t_id=22903&amp;t_ref=13821&amp;lan=ar\">Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oic-oci.org\/topic\/?t_id=22904&amp;t_ref=13821&amp;lan=fr\">Fran\u00e7ais<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date: 16\/11\/2019<\/p>\n<p>The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomed the consensual UN vote in favor of a set of draft resolutions regarding Palestine at the General Assembly\u2019s Fourth Committee, particularly the resolution concerning the renewal of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East UNRWA\u2019s mandate for another three years by a majority of 170, with only two states voting against it.<\/p>\n<p>The OIC considered this stand as an international commitment and consensus in favor of supporting the Palestinian people\u2019s rights including the refugees\u2019 right to return to their homestead in accordance with UN resolution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-177019\/\">No.194<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OIC Secretary General, Dr. Yousef A. Al-Othaimeen, applauded the stand of those states that voted, in their overwhelming majority, in favour of the resolution and called on all of them to further concretize this political support through financial contributions to enable UNRWA to continue benefiting the Palestinian refugees of its much needed services until the final settlement of their national cause in line with adopted UN resolutions.<\/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. Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 Fran\u00e7ais Date: 16\/11\/2019 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomed the consensual UN vote in favor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/oic-welcomes-un-fourth-committees-consensus-and-positive-vote-on-renewal-of-unrwas-mandate-press-release\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2437,2433,1329],"document-source":[5618],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,1745],"entity":[1889],"document-language":[6544,6542,6541],"class_list":["post-224544","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-arabic-text","document-category-french-text","document-category-press-release","document-source-general-assembly-fourth-committee-special-political-and-decolonization","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral","document-language-arabic","document-language-english","document-language-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/224544","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\/224544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=224544"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=224544"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=224544"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=224544"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=224544"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=224544"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=224544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}