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Palestinian Flag Flies at UN Headquarters for First Time

30 September 2015

Mahmoud Abbas (centre), President of the State of Palestine, greets Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, at today's ceremony to raise the flag of the State of Palestine for the first time at UN Headquarters in New York. Also pictured is Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre, in purple tie) and Riyad H. Mansour (bottom-left, with microphone), Permanent Observer of Palestine to the UN.

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