{"id":5767,"date":"2023-06-14T19:28:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2023-06-14T19:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:28:39","slug":"xi-calls-for-a-palestinian-state-to-become-full-member-of-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/entertainment\/lifestyle\/xi-calls-for-a-palestinian-state-to-become-full-member-of-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi calls for a Palestinian state to become &#8216;full member&#8217; of UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beijing, June 14: Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated to Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday his call for a state of Palestine to become a &#8220;full member&#8221; of the United Nations, state media reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xi expressed Beijing&#8217;s position during a summit with Arab countries in Saudi Arabia in December, although the latest call comes as the Asian powerhouse works to strengthen its role as mediator in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xi met Abbas during the December trip and pledged to &#8220;work for an early, just and durable solution to the Palestinian issue&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beijing has since positioned itself as a mediator in the Middle East, brokering the restoration in March of ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia &#8212; rivals in a region where the United States has for decades been the main powerbroker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;China supports Palestine in becoming a full member State of the United Nations,&#8221; Xi said during a meeting with Abbas in Beijing, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, June 14: Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated to Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday his call for a state of Palestine to become a &#8220;full member&#8221; of the United Nations, state media reported. Xi expressed Beijing&#8217;s position during a summit with Arab countries in Saudi Arabia in December, although the latest call comes as [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,52,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-lifestyle","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}