Saeb Erekat, the second in line to President Mahmoud Abbas in the Palestine Liberation Organisation, and others gave the warning in Ramallah
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The President made the remark at the 13th summit of the Organisation of Islamic Countries in Istanbul, Turkey
Instead, a joint Israeli-Palestine body, probably chaired by Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa, is to be set up to try to resolve issues, including obstacles to the free movement of players and goods, before the next FIFA Congress in Mexico City next May.
Rasheed Adesokan, a defence analyst; Wahab Egbewole, Professor on Jurisprudence and International law; and Femi Abbas, a media consultant, expressed shock over the sudden shift in Nigeria’s foreign policy
Jonathan was said to have received both phone calls and verbal orders from the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netenyahu, not to vote in support of a Palestinian state
The 138-9 vote, with 41 abstentions, came on the 65th anniversary of the assembly’s resolution calling for the partition of British mandate Palestine into Jewish and Arab states