US puts pressure on Palestinian leaders to withdraw bid for UN vice-presidency role
Jerusalem embassy told to issue protest to Palestinian Authority leaders, warning ‘consequences will follow’ if they do not complyThe US has ordered its Jerusalem embassy to press the Palestinian leadership into dropping a bid for a senior position at the UN general assembly, anxious that the role could allow Palestinians to chair high-profile debates on the Middle East. A 19 May state department cable seen by the Guardian instructed the US embassy in Jerusalem to issue a demarche (a formal prot
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