Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will next week address the United Nations' top human rights body, the UN said Tuesday, as a wave of terror in Israel continues despite international calls for calm.
"We expect that on October 28, here is Geneva, the Human Rights Council will hold a special meeting, [which] will feature an intervention by president Mahmoud Abbas from Palestine on the situation in the region," UN spokesman Michele Zaccheo told reporters.
According to AFP, He stressed that the event would not be a special session of the council, but rather a "meeting" lasting about one hour, including a speech by Abbas, but with no room for subsequent questions or debate.
Such a special meeting has been called only once before by the UN's top rights body, when Chilean President Michelle Bachelet spoke to the council in 2007, Zaccheo said.