(VOVWORLD) - Palestine on Tuesday relinquished its right to take the rotating presidency of the Arab League in protest of recent deals to normalize relations between the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Israel.
 Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki (Photo: AFP/VNA) |
“Palestine refuses to record in its history that it presided over the moral degeneracy that was revealed in the last meeting and the normalization steps that followed it, which were in essence a rejection of the work we did between the walls of the Arab League”, said Foreign Minister Maliki. He stressed his government’s adherence to the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which stipulates that normalization can only take place after Israel withdraws from the occupied territories.