{"id":108329,"date":"2018-04-02T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=108329"},"modified":"2018-03-27T17:08:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:08:39","slug":"at-security-council-un-middle-east-peace-envoy-reports-on-israels-troubling-settlement-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/04\/at-security-council-un-middle-east-peace-envoy-reports-on-israels-troubling-settlement-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"At Security Council, UN Middle East Peace Envoy Reports on Israel\u2019s Troubling Settlement Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Reporting that over the past three months, Israel has advanced 22 plans for some 1,200 housing units for one area of the West Bank, a United Nations envoy warned Monday [26 Mar] that such ongoing settlement expansion is eroding the prospect of a two-state solution to the long-standing Middle East conflict.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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26 Mar 2018 – <\/em>In a briefing to the Security Council focused mainly on implementation of its resolution 2334<\/a>, Nickolay Mladenov, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said the text urged Israel to \u201cimmediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[However] no such steps were taken during the reporting period,<\/a>\u201d he added, noting that Israel\u2019s \u201cillegal settlement expansion and related activities continue further threatening the viability of the two-state solution and eroding the prospects for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Mladenov also warned that violence and incitement continue to fuel hatred, division, distrust and fear, and continuing terror attacks on Israelis as well as the recent assassination attempt on the Palestinian Prime Minister exemplify the growing risk of destabilization and the empowerment of radicals and extremists.<\/p>\n

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Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (screen) addresses the Security Ciuncil via videoconference on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
UN Photo\/Manuel Elias<\/p><\/div>\n

He further told the 15-member Security Council the reporting period was marked by continuing demonstrations and clashes following to the announcement by the United States, on 6 December 2017, recognizing Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital, to the growing tensions in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and along the Gaza fence.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the call in [\u2026] resolution 2334 for the parties to refrain from acts of provocation, incitement, and inflammatory rhetoric, such statements continued,\u201d added Mr. Mladenov, calling on all political leaders to refrain from provocative statements and actions that fuel an already tense environment.<\/p>\n

Concluding his remarks, the senior UN official called on Israelis, Palestinians and the\u00a0 international community to take concrete steps to reverse the current course of the conflict and advance the goal of a just and sustainable peace.<\/p>\n

\u201cGenerations of Palestinian and Israeli lives have been shaped by this conflict. It is time to begin constructing a different future, a future built on mutual respect, dignity, and the belief that even the deepest and most painful divisions can be resolved if there is a genuine desire for change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Reporting that over the past three months, Israel has advanced 22 plans for some 1,200 housing units for one area of the West Bank, a United Nations envoy warned Monday [26 Mar] that such ongoing settlement expansion is eroding the prospect of a two-state solution to the long-standing Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":108330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}