Sanctioned by the US, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine will not be able to travel to New York for the UN General Assembly
The United Nations special rapporteur on Palestine is set to deliver a speech before the UN General Assembly from Cape Town instead of New York due to the US sanctions imposed against her earlier this year.
Francesca Albanese will officially launch her new report on Tuesday on third-state complicity in the genocide in Gaza from the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa.
In her speech, Albanese is expected to condemn the sanctions against her, imposed by the administration of Donald Trump in July, which effectively barred her from traveling to the US and froze her assets there.
She has since been unable to officially present her work at the UN General Assembly headquarters in New York, as is required for all UN experts.
"In a few days, I will have the privilege of presenting my final report to the United Nations General Assembly, titled Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime, and I will do so from Cape Town. How symbolic," she told a sizable audience at the annual 23rd Nelson Mandela lecture at the Sandton Convention Centre in northern Johannesburg on Saturday.
While the United States has banned me - and with that, my analysis and recommendations - I am here, in this country that once again stands at the cusp of what can be the beginning of a new multilateralism, challenging once more colonial and imperial power structures." (more...)
Francesca Albanese to deliver 'symbolic' UN speech from South Africa after Trump sanctions
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