{"id":50734,"date":"2019-11-16T11:18:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T03:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=50734"},"modified":"2019-11-16T11:26:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T03:26:33","slug":"palestinian-president-hails-uns-decision-to-renew-unrwa-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=50734","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian President Hails UN&#8217;s Decision To Renew UNRWA Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RAMALLAH, Nov 16 (NNN-WAFA) &#8211; Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, hailed the United Nations General Assembly&#8217;s decision, to renew the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbas, in an official statement, said that, &#8220;170 states voted in favour of the resolution, and only Israel and the United States voted against it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbas said that, &#8220;the UN resolution is proof that the whole world stands with our people and their inalienable historical rights and cause.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It expresses the world&#8217;s position towards supporting Palestinian refugees, and continuing to provide services for them, until their just cause is finally resolved, in accordance with the UN resolutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Reyad al-Malki, earlier stated that, a majority in the UN General Assembly voted in favour of seven resolutions, including the resumption of aid to Palestinian refugees via UNRWA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNRWA was established in 1949, providing health, education and relief services to around five million Palestinian refugees, who live in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.&#8211; NNN-WAFA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH, Nov 16 (NNN-WAFA) &#8211; Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, hailed the United Nations General Assembly&#8217;s decision, to renew the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA). Abbas, in an official statement, said that, &#8220;170 states voted in favour of the resolution, and only Israel and the United States voted against it.&#8221; Abbas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":50741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,217,194,301],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}