New York: Europe and the Arabs
At 10 a.m. on Thursday, New York time, the President of the United Nations General Assembly will resume the tenth emergency special session entitled: Illegal Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory. According to what was stated in the daily news bulletin of the United Nations, a copy of which we received this morning.
The decision of the President of the General Assembly comes after he received two letters from five United Nations member states requesting the resumption of the special session.
The tenth emergency special session of the General Assembly was held for the first time in April 1997 at the request of the Permanent Representative of Qatar.
This came after a series of sessions of the Security Council and the General Assembly to consider the start of construction of the Har Homa settlement - consisting of 6,500 housing units - in Jabal Abu Ghneim, south of occupied East Jerusalem.
The special session resumed on 13 June 2018 at the request of Member States to consider a draft resolution on the “Protection of the Palestinian Civilian Population”.
Pursuant to its resolution entitled “United for Peace” of 3 November 1950, the General Assembly may convene an “emergency special session” within 24 hours if there appears to be a threat to the peace, a breach of the peace or an act of aggression, The Security Council was unable to act on it due to a negative vote (use of veto) by a permanent member.
The General Assembly has so far held 11 emergency special sessions, five of which are on the Middle East.