The Trump administration on Wednesday denied visas to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York for the second time in more than a year.
It is the second consecutive year the State Department has prevented key Palestinian officials from attending the U.N. meeting in New York.
It is the second year this administration has barred the Palestinian delegation from US travel ahead of the forum The US state department said on Wednesday that it had again denied entry visas to Palestinian officials ahead next week’s United Nations…
The US State Department extended its visa sanctions on Palestinian officials, ahead of the UN General Assembly. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will likely submit a video statement for the gathering.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is among those barred for the second year in a row.
The move would prevent Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of two governing Palestinian groups, from traveling to the United States next week for the United Nations General Assembly.
The Trump administration has denied visas for a high-level Palestinian delegation to attend an annual meeting of world leaders at the United Nations for the second year in a row.
