UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said that the 30-country conference held on Tuesday to halt Israel’s occupation of Palestine stands out as one of the most important political developments of the past 20 months, Arab News reported.
Set to run for a couple of days in the Colombian capital Bogota, the conference highlights the participation of several representatives from countries including China, Spain and Qatar.
Participating countries will seize the opportunity and use the event as a platform to lay the groundwork for implementing a UN General Assembly motion. Therefore, they will urge member states to press on Israel to put an end to its illegal occupation of Palestine.
This motion featured a deadline of September for carrying out the International Court of Justice’s 2024 opinion which concluded that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is unlawful.
Moreover, UN member states also have an obligation “not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the occupied Palestinian territory,” the court found.
Colombia’s President, Gustavo Petro, who is hosting the conference, said that the meeting will represent a global will to move from condemnation to collective action against Israel.
“We can either stand firm in defense of the legal principles that seek to prevent war and conflict, or watch helplessly as the international system collapses under the weight of unchecked power politics,” he said in an article for The Guardian last week.
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