The US State Department on Friday said that it is revoking and denying visas from members of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority ahead of the upcoming UN General Assembly in September.
In a post on X, State Department Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott cited Palestine’s links with ‘terrorism’ as the reason for the decision.
“Today the Trump Administration is announcing it will deny and revoke visas from members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) ahead of the upcoming UN General Assembly per U.S. law,” Pigott said in a post on X.
“Before we take them seriously as partners in peace, the PA and PLO must completely reject terrorism and stop counterproductively pursuing the unilateral recognition of a hypothetical state,” he added.
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