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Judeh delivers speech at 139th general assembly of IPU

By JT - Oct 17,2018 - Last updated at Oct 17,2018

AMMAN — Senator Nasser Judeh, who chairs a Jordanian parliamentary delegation, on Tuesday delivered a speech on the behalf of Jordan at the 139th general assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. 

“Our world is today full of poverty, injustice, conflicts, terrorism and political and socioeconomic deprivation that results in a desperate case that fuels terrorism and delusional thought”, Judeh said.

He called on the United Nations Organisation to intensify its envisioned role to maintain the world’s peace and security.

The senator said that conflict resolution should be based on international law, and at the top of the list of priorities is the Arab-Israeli conflict where the Palestinian cause is the master key for peace.

Judeh affirmed that Jordan’s stance towards the Palestinian cause is firm and based on the two state-solution and the establishment of the Palestinian state along the pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Concerning the Syrian crisis, he highlighted Jordan’s stance, which calls for a political solution to put an end to Syrian suffering, adding that Jordan is hosting around 1.3 million Syrian refugees. 

The senator added that funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is not a financial issue but political and symbolic, noting that it is historically connected with the right of return and compensation according to the resolution on which the agency was established.

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