The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) will make its diplomatic debut in Vienna next week when PLO delegates take part in a United Nations conference, PLO representatives were invited to attend a United Nations conference discussing diplomatic privileges, which opens in the former Imperial Palace next Tuesday.
The UN Secretariat decided to invite all “liberation” organizations to take part in the conference. The PLO accepted this invitation. A spokesman for the Austrian Foreign Ministry said that the Ministry had nothing to do with the invitation. Austrian authorities will not grant diplomatic rights to PLO representatives, but only “functional immunity,” he said. The Austrian Interior Ministry ordered security measures for the PLO delegates.
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