{"id":56410,"date":"2015-10-01T13:20:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T10:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=56410"},"modified":"2015-10-01T13:20:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T10:20:34","slug":"palestinian-flag-hoisted-at-un-headquarters-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=56410","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian flag hoisted at UN Headquarters for\u00a0first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New York, SANA The Palestinian flag was hoisted\u00a0for the first time at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was attended by the Palestinian\u00a0President Mahmoud Abbas and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this historical moment, I say to my people\u00a0everywhere: &#8216;raise the flag of Palestinians very high because it is the symbol of our Unity and\u00a0identity,'&#8221; President Abbas told the ceremony. &#8220;It is a proud day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The General Assembly voted on September 10 to\u00a0allow the flags of Palestine and the Vatican, both\u00a0have observer status, to be raised at the world\u00a0body alongside those of member states. The resolution was backed by 119 countries, with 45\u00a0abstentions and eight votes against, including Australia, Israel and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The red, black, white and green Palestinian flag\u00a0fluttered at the United Nations in a symbolic gesture as President Abbas called on the\u00a0international organization to grant the Palestine\u00a0full membership.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the UN General Assembly voted to upgrade\u00a0the status of the Palestinians to that of a &#8220;non-member observer state&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The flag was raised in the Rose Garden of the\u00a0international body, to be later raised along with the Vatican flag alongside the 193-UN member\u00a0states.<\/p>\n<p>H. Zain\/H. Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; New York, SANA The Palestinian flag was hoisted\u00a0for the first time at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday. The ceremony was attended by the Palestinian\u00a0President Mahmoud Abbas and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. &#8220;At this historical moment, I say to my people\u00a0everywhere: &#8216;raise the flag of Palestinians very high because it is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,100],"tags":[7189],"class_list":["post-56410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-news","tag-palestinian-flag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}