Additionally, over 100 members of the European Parliament signed a letter urging the European Union "to discourage unilateral Palestinian efforts to attain UN recognition." The letter states that "A unilateral move will not bring reconciliation; it will not bring stability; it will not bring peace...Rather, it will most likely fell the peace process for good."
Concurrently, a delegation of international dignitaries visited Israel this week to assure Israeli leadership that it will fight the Palestinian unilateral bid for recognition. The Friends of Israel Initiative group, including former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, Nobel Peace Prize winner Lord William David Trimble, and Robert Agostinelli, met with PM Netanyahu and President Peres, and other high-ranking Israeli leadership.
U.S. rejects Arab League support for PA statehood bid
In response to the Arab League declaration that it will support the Palestinian Authority bid for statehood in the United Nations, State Department Spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement to the Jerusalem Post, "We've been clear in our conviction that unilateral approaches to try to seek statehood via the United Nations will not lead to a comprehensive settlement...That will only come via the hard give and take of negotiations and mutual agreement..."
Such actions, he explained, would be "a violation of all the Palestinian Authority's agreements with us going back to the 1993 Oslo Accords which says expressly that there's no alternative to direct negotiations."
Such actions, he explained, would be "a violation of all the Palestinian Authority's agreements with us going back to the 1993 Oslo Accords which says expressly that there's no alternative to direct negotiations."
Source: http://www.israelemb.org/
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