{"id":198277,"date":"2016-07-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=198277"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:34:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:34:06","slug":"auto-insert-198277","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-198277\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Foreign &#038; Commonwealth Office expresses concern over plans for 770 settlement units between Jerusalem and Bethlehem &#8211; UK FCO statement\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#808080;text-align:left;padding-bottom:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Press release<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood expresses concern over plans for 770 settlement units between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Foreign Office minister, Tobias Ellwood, said:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The UK is concerned to see plans for 770 settlement units between Jerusalem and Bethlehem progressing. As we have previously made clear, all settlement activity is illegal under international law, and damages prospects for a two-state solution.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The UK is particularly concerned about the impact such settlements may have on Palestinian Christian minorities in the area, who are already affected by renewed construction of the Separation Barrier on Palestinian land in the Cremisan Valley.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Further information<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Follow Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood on Twitter<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tobias_Ellwood\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>@Tobias_Ellwood<\/u><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>@foreignoffice<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>Facebook<\/u><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Follow the Foreign Office on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ukforeignoffice\/\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>Instagram<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ukforeignoffice\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>YouTube<\/u><\/a><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">&nbsp;and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/foreign-and-commonwealth-office?trk=biz-companies-cym\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>LinkedIn<\/u><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Media enquiries<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#00201f;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Email <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\" style=\"color:#603181;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><u>newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/u><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#00201f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">News Desk 020 7008 3100<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:6px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/minister-for-the-middle-east-statement-on-settlement-units-between-jerusalem-and-bethlehem\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-top:6px;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/minister-for-the-middle-east-statement-on-settlement-units-between-jerusalem-and-bethlehem<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood expresses concern over plans for 770 settlement units between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Foreign Office minister, Tobias Ellwood, said: The UK is concerned to see plans for 770 settlement units between Jerusalem and Bethlehem progressing. As we have previously made clear, all settlement activity is illegal under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-198277\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[2321],"document-category":[2437,2477,1329,1338],"document-source":[],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1741,1961,2137],"entity":[1985],"document-language":[6544,6542],"class_list":["post-198277","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-united-kingdom","document-category-arabic-text","document-category-news-item","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-jerusalem","document-subject-settlements","entity-state","document-language-arabic","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/198277","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\/198277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=198277"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=198277"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=198277"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=198277"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=198277"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=198277"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=198277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}