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EE.UU. rechazará visas a funcionarios palestinos en la cumbre de la ONU sobre el Estado

Global viernes 29 de agosto de 2025 -

AFP

The United States said Friday it will deny visas to members of the Palestinian Authority to attend next month's UN General Assembly, where France is leading a push to recognize a Palestinian state.

The extraordinary step further aligns President Donald Trump's administration with Israel's government, which adamantly rejects a Palestinian state and has sought to lump together the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority with rival Hamas in Gaza.

"Secretary of State Marco Rubio is denying and revoking visas from members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) ahead of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly," the State Department said in a statement.

"The Trump administration has been clear: it is in our national security interests to hold the PLO and PA accountable for not complying with their commitments, and for undermining the prospects for peace," it said.

Using a term favored by Trump to deride his legal troubles while out of office, the State Department accused the Palestinians of "lawfare" by turning to the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice to take up grievances with Israel.

The Palestinian Authority must end "attempts to bypass negotiations through international lawfare campaigns" and "efforts to secure the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palestinian state," it said.

- Abbas hopes to attend -

It was not immediately clear if the order applies to all Palestinian officials.

Veteran Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas had been due to attend the UN meeting, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, told reporters.

"We will see exactly what it means and how it applies to any of our delegation, and we will respond accordingly," Mansour said of the State Department move.

The State Department in response to a question referred back to the original statement.

State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said the United States "remains open to re-engagement should the PA/PLO demonstrably take concrete steps to return to constructive engagement."

"The Trump administration does not reward terrorism," Pigott said.

The United States and Israel have accused France and other powers of rewarding Hamas, which launched an unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, through their recognition of a Palestinian state.

French President Emmanuel Macron, exasperated by the relentless nearly two-year Israeli offensive on Gaza in response to the attack, has argued that there can be no further delay in pushing forward a peace process.

Macron has called a special summit on September 22, a day before the formal opening of the UN General Assembly, where he will make France the most prominent Western nation to recognize a state of Palestine.

Desde su anuncio, Canadá y Australia también dijeron que reconocerían un Estado palestino y Gran Bretaña dijo que lo haría a menos que Israel acepte un alto el fuego en Gaza.

- Ruptura de precedente -

Según un acuerdo como anfitrión de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York, Estados Unidos no puede negar visas a funcionarios que viajen al organismo mundial.

El Departamento de Estado insistió en que estaba cumpliendo con el acuerdo al permitir la misión palestina ante las Naciones Unidas.

Cada año, activistas presionan a Estados Unidos para que deniegue visas a líderes de países a los que se oponen, a menudo por graves violaciones de derechos humanos. Sus solicitudes son casi siempre rechazadas, aunque en el pasado Estados Unidos restringió severamente la circulación de líderes iraníes a varias manzanas de la ciudad de Nueva York.

En un paso histórico, en 1988 la Asamblea General volvió a reunirse en Ginebra en lugar de Nueva York para escuchar al líder de la OLP, Yasser Arafat, después de que Estados Unidos se negó a permitirle asistir a Nueva York.

Trump planea asistir a la Asamblea General, donde pronunciará uno de los primeros discursos de una maratónica sesión de líderes, pero su administración ha reducido drásticamente las relaciones con las Naciones Unidas y otras instituciones internacionales.

Trump ha tomado medidas para retirarse del pacto climático de la Organización Mundial de la Salud y la ONU. También ha tomado medidas para imponer sanciones a los jueces de la Corte Penal Internacional involucrados en investigaciones sobre Israel o Estados Unidos.

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