{"id":10858,"date":"2024-01-10T14:27:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=10858"},"modified":"2024-01-10T16:38:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:38:48","slug":"blinken-and-abbas-held-tense-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/blinken-and-abbas-held-tense-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken and Abbas Held Tense Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, advised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, on Wednesday, to implement governance reforms, while Mahmoud Abbas stressed Gaza is an integral part of the Palestinian state.<br \/>\nThe Palestinian side asked Blinken to pressure the release of Palestinian tax funds.<br \/>\nThe Palestinians told Blinken, \u201cIf you do not have the ability to release funds, how will you have the ability to put pressure on Israel and achieve peace and a Palestinian state?!\u201d<br \/>\nBlinken again called for reforms in the Palestinian Authority and its security services, and the Palestinian side responded by saying, \u201cYou must reform yourselves and your policy toward the Palestinian issue.\u201d<br \/>\nFollowing the meeting, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that Blinken affirmed Washington\u2019s firm position on the necessity of establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel \u201cand living in peace and security.\u201d<br \/>\nFor his part, Mahmoud Abbas warned of the seriousness of the measures taken by the Israeli occupation authorities aimed at displacing the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip, or the West Bank, including Jerusalem, which was revealed by statements issued by Israeli ministers and officials, which call for the expulsion of the Palestinian people from their land.<br \/>\nAbbas affirmed his complete rejection of the displacement of any Palestinian citizen, whether in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, saying\u201d we will not allow it to happen\u201d.<br \/>\nAbbas stressed the need to release Palestinian clearance funds immediately \u201cbecause their detention violates agreements and international law,\u201d according to what our correspondent reported.<br \/>\nHe also stressed that the Gaza Strip has priority, \u201cand our people, who fall under the responsibility of the State of Palestine and its administration, will not be abandoned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, advised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, on Wednesday, to implement governance reforms, while Mahmoud Abbas stressed Gaza is an integral part of the Palestinian state. The Palestinian side asked Blinken to pressure the release of Palestinian tax funds. The Palestinians told Blinken, \u201cIf you do &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10860,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10858\/revisions\/10860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}