Pakistan has called on Israel to immediately halt its settlement activity in the occupied West Bank that has been stepped up in the past three months, saying that the project violated UN Security Council resolutions and would undermine Middle East peace prospects.
"The E-1 settlement plan is a direct assault on the two-state framework, threatening to sever East Jerusalem from Palestinian areas and dismantle the contiguity of the West Bank," Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, warned in a speech to 15-member Council on Monday.
"Such policies are not only unjust; they are unlawful," he said in a debate on the UN Secretary-General's quarterly report on implementation of Council resolution 2334, which calls on Israel to immediately and completely cease all settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory.
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