Algeria rejects Zionist entity's punitive measures against Palestinian people, their leaders

NEW YORK - Algeria rejects the punitive measures taken by the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people and their leaders, stressed the Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador Nadir Larbaoui.
In his speech on Wednesday during the Security Council debate on the situation in the Middle East, the Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador Nadir Larbaoui expressed Algeria's rejection of the punitive measures decided by the Zionist occupier against the Palestinian people and their leaders, following the request for an advisory opinion by the UN General Assembly, to the International Court of Justice, recalling the declaration signed, in his capacity as current president of the Arab Summit on behalf of the Arab group and with many countries, to mark the unwavering support for the International Court of Justice and international law as a cornerstone of the international system, as well as the commitment to multilateral cooperation.
 In this regard, Larbaoui recalled that President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, had previously called on the international community, and the Security Council in particular, in a letter addressed to the Secretary General of the United Nations following the violence against the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, to assume its responsibilities in order to put an end to these criminal practices and to provide the necessary protection to the Palestinian people and their sacred places, especially the occupied city of Al-Quds, which is subjected daily, and in the midst of international silence, to the practices and violations of the occupation aimed at altering its demographic nature and its Arab, Islamic and Christian identity and which could result in undermining the efforts to resume negotiations.
Regarding the accession of Palestine to the UN, Larbaoui affirmed Algeria's continued support for the State of Palestine to obtain full membership in the UN, in addition to its support for General Assembly resolution 77/247, by which it requested an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legal implications resulting from the violation by the occupation of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.