Abbas trying to build countermovement to the US
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently called on the African Union to supervise the upcoming legislative elections, while also calling for an international peace conference, which is seen as a move away from the US administration in sponsoring peace talks with Israel.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is trying to counter the anti-Palestinian international efforts led by the Donald Trump administration, by encouraging the creation of a consortium of countries friendly to Palestine.
Palestine’s chairing of the Group of 77 plus China, a consortium of 134 United Nations member states, has given the Palestinian leader a chance to lobby for Palestine.
Abbas used the African Union summit in Addis Ababa to call for an international peace conference and to ask the AU to supervise the upcoming Palestinian legislative elections.
In his Feb. 10 speech and without calling Trump by name, Abbas had some sharp words for the US administration. “Those who encourage Israel to act as a state above international law are the American administration, which is no longer competent to take care of the negotiations alone after it proved its bias to the Israelis,” the official Palestinian Wafa agency quoted him as saying.
