UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council issued a formal statement on Monday (Feb 20) denouncing Israel's plan to expand settlements on occupied Palestinian territory, the first action the United States has allowed the body to take against its ally Israel in six years. Washington's support for the president
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council issued a formal statement on Monday denouncing Israel's plan to expand settlements on occupied Palestinian territory, the first action the United States has allowed the body to take against its ally Israel in six years.
In contrast the draft resolution, seen by Reuters, would have demanded Israel"immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory." Resolutions need nine votes in favour and no vetoes by the United States, Russia, China, France or Britain to be adopted. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office then said on Monday that Israel will not authorise new settlements in the occupied West Bank in the coming months.
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