Palestine announces decision not to chair presidency of Arab League

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GAZA, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian foreign minister announced on Tuesday that Palestine decided to give up its right to chair the presidency of the Arab League in its current session.

"This doesn't mean we will give up our seat in the league because that will create a vacuum which can generate different scenarios ... we don't want at this sensitive time," Riyad al-Maliki told a news conference in Ramallah.

"The State of Palestine is a member of the Arab League and has always worked to enhance its role and position," he noted.

The Palestinian announcement came in the wake of the Arab League's failure to stop Israeli normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Palestine "is not honored to witness the Arabs scrambling toward free normalization with Israel during its presidency of the League Council," al-Maliki said.

"Free normalization is a flagrant violation of the decisions of the Arab summits regarding the Arab Peace Initiative," he added.

According to the Arab Peace Initiative in 2002, the Arab states can only normalize relations with Israel after Israel ends its military occupation of the Palestinian and Arab territories. Enditem

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