Chief Palestinian Negotiator: Tehran's Summit Shows Priority of Palestinian Issue

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat underlined on Thursday that the 16th heads-of-state summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran and the speeches delivered by the NAM leaders indicated that the Palestinian issue sets a priority for the world.
    
"The Tehran summit showed that Palestine is still the prime issue, indicating that we can take a common decision," Erekat told reporters on the sidelines of the NAM summit.

"We are happy that all (the speeches of the NAM leaders) were focused on Palestine and I hope that the representatives of the Arab and Muslim world will speak for the national interests of Palestine," he added.

In his inauguration speech of the NAM summit on Thursday, Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei asked participants in the NAM summit in Tehran to pay special attention to the Palestinian issue, and called on the American backers of the Israeli regime to accept Iran's proposal for a referendum in the Palestinian lands to determine the country's fate.

The Leader reminded the Zionists' bloody occupation of Palestine over 6 decades ago, and blamed the Zionist regime for waging various wars, massacre and state-sponsored terrorism in the last decades.

He blamed the western world for supporting and defending the Zionist regime of Israel against the oppressed Palestinian nation.

The leader further renewed Iran's solution to the Palestinian issue, calling for a "comprehensive referendum to be attended by all the indigenous residents of Palestine, including those refugees who have been away from their motherland for decades to determine the country's fate".

The Iranian supreme leader cautioned the US against the continue support and defense for the Zionist regime of Israel, reminding that decade-long support for the Israeli regime has incurred many costs and losses on the American people. 

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