US says it will ban PA's Abbas, 80 other officials from attending UN General Assembly

[Israeli]

Rubio says PA and PLO officials to be barred from visiting UN Headquarters in NYC next month over ‘efforts to secure unilateral recognition’ and failure to repudiate extremism

By Jacob Magid

The United States said on Friday it will not allow Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to travel to New York next month for a United Nations gathering of world leaders, where several US allies are set to recognize Palestine as a state.

A State Department official told The Times of Israel that a US visa ban on Palestinian officials planning to attend the United Nations General Assembly, announced earlier in the day, would cover Abbas along with 80 other PA officials.

The unprecedented step came a month after the State Department first announced that it would pursue the policy, which it now appeared to be implementing.

Abbas had been planning to travel to New York for the annual high-level UN General Assembly at UN headquarters in Manhattan. He was also set to attend a summit there — hosted by France and Saudi Arabia — where Britain, France, Australia and Canada are planning to formally recognize a Palestinian state.

Source : https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-says-its-denying-visas-to-palestinian-officials-for-un-general-assembly-next-month/

[littlemissmartypants]

1. More isolationist policies. Great.