Ankara: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged US President Donald Trump on Thursday to honor pledges made to Arab countries to prevent the displacement of Palestinians and the annexation of Palestinian land.

According to Anadolu Agency,Abbas made the appeal in a pre-recorded speech to the 81st session of the UN General Assembly after he was unable to attend the gathering in person for the second consecutive year because of visa restrictions.

'We call upon President Trump to honor the pledges he made to Arab and Islamic leaders last September, to prevent the annexation of Palestinian territory and to reject displacement,' he said.

Trump promised Muslim and Arab leaders during a meeting in September 2025 that he would not allow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex the occupied West Bank, according to a report by the American news website Politico.

Abbas urged the US to work with Palestinian leadership and the international community to implement a two-state solution based on international law.

He said Palestinians welcomed Trump's peace plan 'but had seen no progress on the ground.'

Trump announced a 20-point plan for Gaza on Sept. 29, 2025, that called for ending the war, exchanging Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, allowing humanitarian aid into the enclave, and a phased Israeli withdrawal tied to the disarmament of Palestinian factions and the deployment of a temporary international stabilization force.

He also warned world leaders against allowing a 'repeat of the Nakba and massacres' Palestinians suffered in 1948.

The Palestinian president said his people are facing one of the 'most dangerous periods in their history,' citing killings, destruction, starvation and attempts at forced displacement in the Gaza Strip.

Turning to the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Abbas said illegal settlement expansion and the fragmentation of the territory are accelerating, while violence by Israeli occupiers is increasing under the protection of Israeli forces.

He warned that Israeli policies 'outside international law' will destroy the two-state solution and said an even 'greater danger' is emerging that requires immediate action.

Abbas said the threat no longer concerned only the undermining of the two-state solution or preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state, but had become an 'existential threat' to the Palestinian people's presence on their own land.

He described developments in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as part of a 'malicious colonial plan' to make life increasingly difficult for Palestinians and push them into forced displacement.

'Our people will remain on their land and will not accept displacement,' said Abbas, adding that 'occupation and settlement activity do not make a solution.'

Abbas said any transitional period must ultimately lead to the reunification of Gaza and the occupied West Bank under one Palestinian state with a single legitimate armed force.

He also accused Israel of withholding more than $6 billion in Palestinian funds, demanding their immediate release.

Abbas also called for Palestine to be granted full membership in the UN and reiterated demands for the return of refugees and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

'We want security and peace for everyone. We reject attacks on civilians by any party, and we combat antisemitism,' he said.

Abbas rejected what he described as punitive measures preventing him and members of the Palestinian delegation from attending the General Assembly, saying the restrictions violate US obligations as host country of the United Nations.

He urged Washington to reverse the measures and allow Palestinian leadership to participate fully in UN meetings.

Under the 1947 UN Headquarters Agreement between the UN and Washington, the US, as the host country, is required to facilitate access to UN headquarters for representatives participating in the organization's meetings.

On Sept. 17, the UN General Assembly approved arrangements allowing Abbas to address the session by pre-recorded video after Washington denied him an entry visa.