Australia votes with 158 other countries to recognise ‘permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’
A spokesperson for the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, said the vote reflected international concern for Israel’s actions, including its ‘ongoing settlement activity, land dispossession, demolitions and settler violence against Palestinians’.A spokesperson for the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, said the vote reflected international concern for Israel’s actions, including its ‘ongoing settlement activity, land dispossession, demolitions and settler violence against Palestinians’.
A spokesperson for the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, said the vote reflected international concern for Israel’s actions, including its “ongoing settlement activity, land dispossession, demolitions and settler violence against Palestinians”. “This resolution importantly recalls UN Security Council resolutions that reaffirm the importance of a two-state solution that has had bipartisan support.”
Australia has not changed its position on final status issues, such as borders, security and Jerusalem, which will need to be resolved under negotiations toward a two-state solution.after signifying its disappointment in the “unbalanced resolution that is unfairly critical of Israel, demonstrating a clear and persistent institutional bias directed against one member state”.
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