Riyaz Patel
South Africa’s Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation says the State of Palestine remains a priority on South Africa’s international diplomacy agenda.
“We will continue to use all multilateral platforms, regional bodies and platforms as well as our bilateral relations to continue to agitate for support for the basic human rights of the Palestinian peoples,” Alvin Botes told delegates at the Ministerial Committee of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Venezuela.
Botes restated Pretoria’s position on Palestine. “We will continue to campaign for the independence of Palestine under the two-state solution, based on the international recognition and independence of the viable State of Palestine, based on the 4 June 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
South Africa’s deputy foreign minister called on “the Israeli government to immediately end the continuous violation of international human rights committed against the Palestinians.”
Botes listed some of the Israeli violations,
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