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| Christian pilgrims visit the Church of Nativity in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem on June 28, 2012. |
"Palestinian Foreign
Minister Riyad Malki, in St. Petersburg for the vote, thanked all those
who voted in favor of including Bethlehem's holiest sites on the world
heritage list.
"The victory of Palestine
in international organizations is the beginning of the end of the
Israeli occupation," Malki said in a statement.
Hanan Ashrawi, a member
of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee who heads
the group's Department of Culture and Information, told CNN from
Ramallah that the vote affirms the Palestinian identity and is one step
toward Palestinian self-determination.
"Now we are responsible for our cultural and historical sites as part of human civilization as a whole," Ashrawi said.
"Politically it is
important, because it is the beginning of the loosening of the control
of the Israeli occupation on our land, on our lives, on our culture and
at all attempts of confiscation and distortion of our cultural heritage
and reality," Ashrawi said....READ MORE
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