News | September 30, 2015 06:20 PM EDT
President Abbas raises Palestinian flag for first time at UN
UNITED NATIONS (AP) â Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas raised the flag of the state of Palestine at the United Nations for the first time on Wednesday with a promise that it will be raised soon in Jerusalem, "the capital of our Palestinian state."
More than 300 ministers, diplomats and well-wishers who crowded into the rose garden at U.N. headquarters where a temporary flagpole had been erected for the ceremony applauded his words.
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