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U.S. Denial of Visas: Washington Must Rethink Its Attempt to Block Palestinian Officials from U.N.

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16.09.2025

Editorial

16:42 JST, September 14, 2025

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that it will not issue visas to people linked to the Palestinian Authority (PA).

If things go on this way, the PA leaders and other relevant people will not be able to attend the U.N. General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York in late September to deliver an address and take other action. The United States should reconsider its unilateral measure.

In late August, the U.S. State Department said it had decided to deny visas for Palestinian applicants from a security standpoint and claimed that the PA and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) were inciting terrorism through education. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is among those........

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