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All Israeli settlements illegal, says Russia
Saturday June 09, 2012 09:55:53 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow: The Russia has called on Israel
to abandon plans to build new apartments in the West Bank, warning
that it could hurt the peace process in the Middle East.
Israel said Wednesday it would build over 800 additional housing
units in West Bank settlements and relocate some of the settlers
from Ulpana within the occupied Palestinian territory.
"All Israeli settlements in the West Bank and in east Jerusalem
are illegal and any settlement activity including in the existing
settlements must be stopped," Russian foreign ministry said in a
statement Friday.
"These steps pose a threat to the establishment of a viable
Palestinian state and undermine the prospects of a peaceful
settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the statement
said.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton earlier Friday blasted
the Israeli decision to expand settlement construction in the West
Bank.
Ashton said settlement activity puts international peace efforts
in the Middle East at risk.
The Palestinians are seeking to create an independent state on the
territories of West Bank, east Jerusalem, partially occupied by
Israel, and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and want Israel to
pull from the Palestinian territories occupied after the 1967 war.
Israel, however, has refused to return to the 1967 borders and is
unwilling to raise the issue of Jerusalem, which it says is the
indivisible capital of the Jewish state.
The Israeli settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian
territories is the main obstacle for the resumption of the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which has been stalled for over
a year.
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