The UN said that its secretary-general Antonio Guterres would preside over a special session on Palestine to be held by the Security Council next Tuesday in the presence of Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas.
Spokesman for the secretary-general Stephane Dujarric told a news conference at the UN headquarters in New York that there would a bilateral meeting on the same day between Abbas and Guterres to discuss recent developments on Palestine.
Earlier this month Security Council president Mansour al-Otaibi said that Abbas would take part in the regular session of the council on Palestine on February 20 and would brief the members on different issues related to the Palestinian cause including the developments that resulted from the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Otaibi stated that an unofficial meeting would be held between members of the council on February 22 to discuss the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories especially in the Gaza Strip.
