{"id":197572,"date":"2016-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=197572"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:26:04","slug":"auto-insert-197572","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-197572\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of EU Spokesperson on Settlements in Ramat Shlomo &#8211; EU Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;padding-bottom:10px;\">\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%2797%27%20height%3D%2763%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%2097%2063%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%2797%27%20height%3D%2763%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/49566cb42334b4f68525807b005fae39_image0.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"63px\" width=\"97px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;color:#000000;padding-bottom:10px;text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Statement by the Spokesperson on the settlements in Ramat Shlomo<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Bruxelles, 25\/11\/2016 &#8211; 23:16 &#8211; UNIQUE ID: 161125_11<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Statement by the Spokesperson on the settlements in Ramat Shlomo<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Jerusalem Municipality has announced that it will advance plans for 500 new housing units in Ramat Shlomo, East Jerusalem. It would affect land privately owned by Palestinians, and extend the settlement northeast, further encroaching on Palestinian inhabited areas, while linking to expansion of a neighbouring Israeli settlement to the west.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The policy of settlement construction and expansion, illegal under international law, continues to undermine the contiguity of a future Palestinian state and therefore raises questions about Israel&#39;s stated commitment to the two-state solution.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:8px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">As stated in the Quartet <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/F1675AA83BC132BB85257FF7006BC523.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-bottom:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">report<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;of July 2016, the settlement policy, designation of land for exclusive Israeli use and the denial of Palestinian development are steadily eroding the viability of the two-state solution and represent a threat to achieving a negotiated peace.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:6px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/delegations\/palestine-occupied-palestinian-territory-west-bank-and-gaza-strip\/15966\/statement-by-the-spokesperson-on-the-settlements-in-ramat-shlomo_en\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-top:6px;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/delegations\/palestine-occupied-palestinian-territory-west-bank-and-gaza-strip\/15966\/statement-by-the-spokesperson-on-the-settlements-in-ramat-shlomo_en<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement by the Spokesperson on the settlements in Ramat Shlomo Bruxelles, 25\/11\/2016 &#8211; 23:16 &#8211; UNIQUE ID: 161125_11 Statement by the Spokesperson on the settlements in Ramat Shlomo The Jerusalem Municipality has announced that it will advance plans for 500 new housing units in Ramat Shlomo, East Jerusalem. 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