H.E. Mr. Habib El Malki, PUIC President, and H.E. Mr. Mouhamed Khouraichi Niass, PUIC Secretary General, received separate messages from H.E. Mr. Salim Al – Za’anoon, Speaker of the Palestine National Council (PNC), relating to the decision taken by the US Administration, on 25 August 2019, to delete any reference to “Palestine” or “Palestinian Authority” from its official site concerning definition of regions and countries in the Middle East region, after it has previously deleted the term “occupied territories”.

H.E. Mr. Al Za’anoon, affirmed that this decision is extremely serious and gives the green light for further settlement and the dispersion of the Palestinian people from their land and completely blocks the road to peace.

He called, on behalf of the Palestinian people, and in the name of the PNC to do “whatever you deem appropriate to protect the rights of the Palestinian people in self-determination upon their land.

Following is the text of the message: