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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on Israeli authorities to immediately halt plans to build settlements in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
“Our position is clear: Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the regime associated with them were established and maintained in violation of international law,” he said in a note to the media.
“Settlements further entrench the occupation, fuel tensions and systematically undermine the viability of a Palestinian state as part of a two-state solution,” the note said.
It is noted that construction in the E1 area will lead to the separation of the northern and southern parts of the West Bank, which will seriously undermine the prospects for the creation of a viable and territorially contiguous Palestinian state.
Area E1, located between Jerusalem and the settlement of Maale Adumim, is considered particularly controversial because if Israelis settled there, East Jerusalem would be effectively cut off from the northern part of the West Bank. Plans for construction in the area have been frozen for years, largely due to international outcry. –0–
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