{"id":193235,"date":"2014-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=193235"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:34:18","slug":"auto-insert-193235","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-193235\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by EU High Representative Ashton on Israeli settlement announcement of 5 Feb. 2014 &#8211; EU press release\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27496%27%20height%3D%27271%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20496%20271%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27496%27%20height%3D%27271%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/e1e879e0d4992e5585257c7700558230_image0.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"271px\" width=\"496px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#212100;text-align:center;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#212100;text-align:center;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>the Israeli settlement announcement of 5 February 2014 <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, issued the following statement today: <\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>&quot;I am deeply concerned at the announcement by the Jerusalem municipal authorities of their approval of building permits for 558 new units in East Jerusalem, in Har Homa, Neve Yaakov and Pisgat Zeev. <\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>These plans could put at risk the prospects of Jerusalem becoming the capital of two states and, in particular, the territorial contiguity between East Jerusalem and the southern West Bank. <\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>The EU and the international community have repeatedly warned that any unilateral action prejudging the final status of Jerusalem threatens the current peace negotiations and, as a consequence, the two-state solution. Any such developments must be avoided at all costs. <\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\"><i>I urge the Israeli authorities to reconsider their plans and to reverse their decision.&quot; <\/i><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27405%27%20height%3D%2796%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20405%2096%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27405%27%20height%3D%2796%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/e1e879e0d4992e5585257c7700558230_image1.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"96px\" width=\"405px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><i>doclink: <\/i><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eeas.europa.eu\/statements\/docs\/2014\/140206_02_en.pdf\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><i>http:\/\/www.eeas.europa.eu\/statements\/docs\/2014\/140206_02_en.pdf<\/i><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on the Israeli settlement announcement of 5 February 2014 The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, issued the following statement today: &quot;I am deeply concerned at the announcement by the Jerusalem municipal authorities of their approval of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-193235\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[897],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2505],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1797,1905,2137,2741],"entity":[1889,1985],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-193235","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-european-union-eu","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-peace-proposals-and-efforts","document-subject-settlements","document-subject-statehood-related","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral","entity-state","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/193235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/193235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=193235"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=193235"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=193235"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=193235"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=193235"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=193235"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=193235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}