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Malaysia Hopes US to Agree to International Force in Palestine
Malaysia hopes that the United States will agree to the wishes of the international community for the setting up of an International Force in Palestine, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said Thursday in Kuala Lumpur.
He said that the need for the setting up of a United Nations-administered International Force was a fair and justified call to stop the killing of Palestinians.
"The United States should look at the plight of humanity, at what the majority of the international community wanted," he told reporters after presenting a donation for the Mekong Valley flood victims at the Foreign Ministry.
The US, he said, should do something to prevent the seven-week violence which until now had caused over 200 fatalities among Palestinian men, women and children.
"There is an urgency to expedite the establishment of an International Force in view of the worsening situation in Palestine," he said.
But the matter rests single-handedly with the US, Syed Hamid said, noting Malaysia would never lose hope in persuading the US to accept the International Force.
Syed Hamid said that Malaysia had made a commitment to participating in the International Force should the UN Security Council decides to create one.
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