Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent congratulations today to the United Nations General Assembly special meeting held Nov. 26 to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. A day selected in 1977 by the UN General Assembly to call for the end of the occupation of Palestine, Xi used the day’s occasion for timely remarks to call for an end to the ongoing genocide. Xinhua wrote of the President’s statement: “Noting that the question of Palestine is at the heart of the Middle East issue and concerns international fairness and justice, Xi said the pressing task is to comprehensively and effectively implement the relevant UN Security Council resolutions to end the war as soon as possible and ease the regional situation.
“The fundamental way out is to implement the two-State solution and promote the political settlement of the question of Palestine, establish an independent Palestinian state enjoying full sovereignty on the basis of the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, and ensure the right of the Palestinian people to statehood, their right to existence, and their right of return, Xi said. …
