President John Dramani Mahama, in his address at the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York, has called for an end to the crimes being committed against Palestinians in Gaza.
He urged world leaders to be bold in condemning what he described as the ongoing atrocities in Gaza.
President Mahama also criticized the UN for its failure to confront the crisis directly and called on Israel to be held accountable.
“For nearly two years, and for the fear of reprisal, we here in this General Assembly have been playing hide-and-seek with language to find the right words to help us avoid or excuse what we all know is taking place there,” he stated.
“But here’s the thing, it doesn’t matter what you call it: if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, well then… It must be a duck. The crimes in Gaza must stop,” he declared.
According to the president, the suffering of Palestinians could no longer be ignored, as “hundreds of thousands of innocent people” were enduring “collective punishment and forced starvation for no reason other than the fact that they are Palestinian.”
He further expressed disappointment with the United States government’s decision to deny visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his delegation to the Assembly.
To him, this action could only be described as a “bad precedent” and a direct threat to the integrity of the UN system.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana