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Gavin Blackburn

US revokes visas of Palestinian officials ahead of UN General Assembly, State Department says

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of a number of Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organisation officials ahead of next month’s annual meeting of the UN General Assembly, where the groups previously have been represented.

The State Department said in a statement on Friday that Rubio also had ordered some new visa applications from Palestinian officials be denied.

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