BBC News
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The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has received rousing applause at the United Nations General Assembly after flourishing his formal application for UN membership for a Palestinian state. The United States had opposed the move, threatening to veto it at any Security Council vote. Mr Abbas said Palestinians wanted a greater role for the UN since previous international peace efforts had failed because of what he called Israel's intransigence. Mr Abbas was speaking through a translator.
巴勒斯坦总统阿巴斯正式申请成为联合国会员国之后在联合国大会上受到了热烈的掌声。联合国反对此举,威胁在安理会投票上予以否决。阿巴斯表示,由于以色列的不妥协导致此前的国际和平努力失败,巴勒斯坦人希望在联合国发挥更大的作用。阿巴斯通过翻译发表讲话:
"It is time for the Palestinian people to gain their freedom and independence. The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestinian refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realise their rights, some of whom were forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world."
“现在巴勒斯坦人应该获得他们的自由和独立了。应该停止巴勒斯坦国土上数百万巴勒斯坦难民和离散的犹太人的痛苦和困境,终止他们流离失所的状态,意识到他们的权利。其中一些难民被迫多次在世界上不同的地方避难。”