The State of Palestine’s envoy to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ in Geneva, Ibrahim Khraishi, has officially submitted a letter from President Mahmoud Abbas seeking membership of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Conference on Trade and Development (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµCTAD).
Mr. Khraishi, who is the Palestinian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Observer, hand delivered the letter from President Abbas on 24 May to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi. The letter expresses the State of Palestine’s intention to become a member of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµCTAD.
As part of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Secretariat, rather than a specialized agency, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµCTAD’s responses to all major international issues are based on consultations with the global secretariat of the United Nations and, following the State of Palestine’s request, it has begun these with Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ headquarters in New York.

Under Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµCTAD’s rules of procedure, the Geneva-based organization’s members are states which are already members of the United Nations — or of the world body’s specialized agencies, which is the case of the State of Palestine, part of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµESCO).
The request to join Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµCTAD comes as the State of Palestine has also applied to be part of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Industrial Development Organization (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµIDO) and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Document Sources: State, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµCTAD)
Country: Palestine (State of)
Subject: Economic issues, International Conventions/Treaties, International presence
Publication Date: 24/05/2018
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