Ambassador Nikki Haley Promises to Block Any Appointment of Palestinian Official to Senior UN Post

News Staff : Jun 28, 2017
Times of Israel

The US does not recognize Palestine as a state, therefore...

(Washington, DC)—[Times of Israel] US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley indicated she would block any appointment of a Palestinian official to a senior role at the UN because Washington "does not recognize Palestine" as an independent state. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Speaking on Tuesday before the House Appropriations State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, Haley was asked about the move by the US in February to oppose the appointment of former Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad to be the new world body envoy to Libya...

"If we don't recognize Palestine as a state, we needed to acknowledge also that we could not sit there and put a Palestinian forward until the US changed its determination on that front," she said.

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