RAMALLAH, Palestinian territories (AFP) – the Palestinians have refused a compromise offered by Washington to revoke a UN resolution condemning the Jewish settlements, Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said Thursday.
The resolution, are debated by the UN Security Council last Friday, contains a condemnation of Jewish settlement is built on occupied Palestinian land and calls to be stopped.
United States, who regularly uses its Security Council veto to stop anti-isrælske initiatives, has promised to oppose the resolution, and instead proposed a non-binding declaration condemning settlement activity.
"The American administration, through its United Nations Ambassador (Susan Rice), submitted a proposal to the Palestinian Ambassador and Arab Group to refrain from asking the Security Council to condemn and demand an end to isrælske settlements in the Palestinian territories, in particular in East Jerusalem," Maliki told AFP, say they refused the offer.
"Instead of a vote on the resolution the Security Council would issue non-binding declaration solid reject settlement activity and criticise the positions, in particular its Isræls failure to apply the roadmap," said he reference 2003 peace plan published by the Middle East Quartet.
Statement proposed would also put out the Security Council's readiness to send UN envoys "to explore close to realities on the ground", he added.
But the Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas Thursday promised they would press ahead with the resolution, which was filed last month, representatives of the Arab countries.
"We want the Security Council so that it adopts a resolution demanding that Israel halt settlement activity," he said Thursday at a joint press conference with East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta.
"We hoped that the Quartet would the public a balanced statement speaks of 1967 and on security, but that does not happen, then, we have asked the Security Council to call on Israel to cease its settlement activity, a requirement that is done many times by the American Government," he said.
The resolution condemns the isrælske settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in line with the policy of the international community, including the United States.
Washington, however, against the resolution, the only way to solve such problems is through negotiations.
World powers currently seek ways to make Israel and Palestinians back to the negotiating table after talks broke in late 2010 in a dispute over Jewish settlement construction.
The Palestinians--who observer status without voting rights at the United Nations--is refusing to resume the negotiations, while Israel is based on the country they wish for their future State, but efforts to convince Israel to impose a new ban has failed.
No comments:
Post a Comment