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Palestinian Authority urges US to reinstate Abbas’s visa before UNGA

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's spokesman says US visa revocations 'will only increase tension and escalation' [File: Zain Jaafar/AFP]

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s office has urged the United States to reverse a decision to revoke the Palestinian leader’s visa, just weeks before he was set to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.

The Palestinian presidency expressed “astonishment” at Washington’s decision on Friday to rescind the visas for Abbas and 80 other Palestinian officials before next month’s high-level meetings at UN headquarters.

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