{"id":33231,"date":"2025-09-20T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/09\/20\/un-approves-video-address-by-palestines-abbas-after-us-visa-refusal\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:29:00","slug":"un-approves-video-address-by-palestines-abbas-after-us-visa-refusal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/09\/20\/un-approves-video-address-by-palestines-abbas-after-us-visa-refusal\/","title":{"rendered":"UN approves video address by Palestine\u2019s Abbas after US visa refusal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations<br \/>General Assembly voted on Friday to allow Palestinian President<br \/>Mahmoud Abbas to address the annual gathering of world leaders<br \/>next week via video after the United States said it would not<br \/>give him a visa to travel to New York.<br \/>The resolution received 145 votes in favor and five votes<br \/>against, while six countries abstained. It also allows Abbas and<br \/>any other high-level Palestinian officials to take part in U.N.<br \/>meetings or conferences via video over the next year if they are<br \/>prevented from traveling to the United States.<br \/>The U.S. said last month that Abbas and about 80 other<br \/>Palestinians would be affected by its decision to deny and<br \/>revoke visas from members of the umbrella Palestine Liberation<br \/>Organization and the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority.<br \/>&#8220;U.S. opposition to this resolution should come as no<br \/>surprise,&#8221; U.S. diplomat Jonathan Shrier said before the<br \/>vote. &#8220;The Trump Administration has been clear: we must hold the<br \/>PLO and Palestinian Authority accountable for not complying with<br \/>their commitments under the Oslo Accords, some of them very<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United NationsGeneral Assembly voted on Friday to allow Palestinian PresidentMahmoud Abbas to address the annual gathering of world leadersnext week via video after the United States said it would notgive him a visa to travel to New York.The resolution received 145 votes in favor and five votesagainst, while six countries abstained. 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