PLO Executive Committee member, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi bid farewell to the outgoing South Korean Representative to the State of Palestine, Sung-Jun Yeo, and welcomed the new Representative, Woong Chul Pak, to Palestine.
In the meeting, Dr. Ashrawi called on the South Korean government to recognize the State of Palestine and to make its relations with Israel contingent upon its respect for international law and human rights.
She also urged South Korea to build on the European guidelines pertaining to settlement products and its relations with Israel, and she stressed that the gravity of the situation now calls for an arms embargo with Israel.
Both parties discussed Israel’s ongoing violations of international law and its flagrant war crimes in the context of the current aggression on Gaza and Israel’s campaign of state terror.
In a separate meeting, Dr. Ashrawi thanked the outgoing the Portuguese Representative to the State of Palestine, Jorge Lobo de Mesquita, and expressed her appreciation of the Portuguese position regarding Palestine, including its vote for Palestine at the United Nations and its assistance to the Palestinian people.
She called on the Portuguese government to recognize the State of Palestine and to send a clear message to Israel that its impunity and the military occupation of Palestine must end.
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