Haaretz.com (Israel) : "Israel 'deeply appreciates' U.S. veto on UN resolution condemning settlements" by News Agencies

 

Sat, February 19, 2011 Adar I 15, 5771
  
  

• Published 13:25 19.02.11
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Israel 'deeply appreciates' U.S. veto on UN resolution condemning settlements

Prime Minister's Office thanks Obama for nixing Security Council resolution proposed by Arab states censuring Israeli settlement activity.

By News Agencies 

  
Israel said it was deeply grateful to the United States on Saturday after it vetoed a United Nations resolution put forward by the Palestinian leadership condemning Israeli settlement activity. "Israel deeply appreciates the decision by President Obama to veto the Security Council Resolution", Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement.
Israel was "prepared to pursue negotiations vigorously" and was "eager to get on" with Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, the premier's office said. The "decision by the US makes it clear that the only path to such a peace will come through direct negotiations and not through the decisions of international bodies," it continued......(.....).......
 
 

	Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on September 1, 2010.
	Photo by: AP

 
 
 
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