Morning Star.png Palestine flag will fly in New York James Tweedie, The Moring Star, London, 12 September 2015 The UN general assembly voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to allow Palestine to raise its flag at the organisation's headquarters in New York. Israel strongly objected to the proposal and joined seven other countries, including the United States, in voting against it. But 119 nations voted in favour and 45 - including Britain - abstained. Palestinian UN ambassador Riyad Mansour hailed the "historic vote," calling it "another step towards fulfilment of the promise of independence made to the Palestinian people nearly seven decades ago. "Of course we know that raising our flag will neither end the occupation nor solve the conflict immediately," Mr Mansour said. "But raising the flag will signal to our people everywhere." From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-9b97-Palestines-flag-will-fly-in-NY#.Vf PvrBGqqkp -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
