Press Release
PAL/1856
UN LATIN AMERICAN/CARIBBEAN SEMINAR AND NGO SYMPOSIUM ON QUESTION OF PALESTINE OPENS IN SANTIAGO
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A two-day Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People on the theme, "Facing the challenges of the year 2000: promoting Palestinian development", concluded in Cairo on 28 April. It was the sixth in a series of annual seminars on economic and social issues held under the auspices of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
An International Non-governmental Organization (NGO) Meeting on the Question of Palestine, held in Cairo from 25 to 26 April, concluded by stressing the continuing and unfulfilled responsibility of the United Nations and the international community for a just resolution of the issue, based on establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Al Quds or East Jerusalem as its capital.