(A new housing development decided in East Jerusalem. Israel has announced plans to build more than 1,600 housing units)Wednesday, 10 March 2010
The Arab League will meet tonight to respond to the decision of Israeli settlement
Alsumaria News / Beirut
Moved the Arab League today, to respond to the Israeli decision to build 1600 housing units for settlers in East Jerusalem, which would overthrow the U.S. efforts to begin indirect negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis, announced the Secretary-General of the Arab League to a meeting of representatives of Arab States will be held on Wednesday evening to take a clear decision, which he described as "Israel's recklessness," while the prime minister ruled out the country to see the Arab summit held last month in Libya, a crucial decision on the subject.
The delegates of Arab States held a meeting time evening Wednesday in Cairo to take "a clear decision" in response to the Israeli decision, according to the Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, after meeting with Secretary-General of the Arab League Amr Moussa in Doha.
Sheikh Hamad said "there will be a meeting today to representatives of Arab States, Amr Moussa, and there will be a clear decision to respond to the Israeli action."
Asked about the possibility of taking a decision thereon during the Arab summit to be held in the last month in Libya, "I do not think a crucial role in the decision of an Arab summit on this issue", stating that "the Arab situation is not so well."
For his part, Amr Moussa said that "we Sntdarc positions during the meeting to be held in Cairo this evening, and raise an immediate recommendation to the ministerial level to hold, turn to the Arab summit to be held at the end of the month in Libya," with reference to the "possibility that the complexity of the Arab Ministerial Committee meeting within days. "
Moussa added that "contacts were made with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the Arab foreign ministers and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the U.S. envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain Miguel Angel Moratinos, who heads the European Council of Ministers," adding that "All seemed to upset of the Israeli challenge to the whole world, and international law, and the mediator, and any policy that could lead to peace. "
He said the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States to say, "The recklessness in Israeli politics and reached the stage where serious and very satisfactory can not be tolerated."
And approved this week the Palestinians, who were calling for a freeze of building as a condition for resumption of talks suspended since December 2008, the indirect negotiations with Israel under U.S. mediation, but did not specify a location or the timing or agenda yet.
Revealed secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Abed Rabbo said many Arab countries the U.S. administration was informed on Tuesday that the decision of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee on the indirect negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians is no longer valid. "
Simultaneously, he denounced U.S. Vice President Joe Biden again during a joint press conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday, Israel's decision to build a new settlement units in East Jerusalem, a decision that threw a shadow over his declaration to Israel, which focused on reassuring Israelis that President Barack Obama is committed to their security in against potential Iranian nuclear threat.
Abbas has said his part, that Biden's visit is good, but the continuation of settlements would destroy all chances of peace. "
The Palestinians expressed satisfaction Wednesday by the United States to condemn the Israeli decision, while condemned the French Foreign Ministry said Israel's settlement plans.
The French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said in a statement, "This resolution is not appropriate at all in time to resume the peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as, it is illegal under international law."
The Israeli Interior Ministry said Tuesday that the plan was to build houses on land annexed by Israel, near Jerusalem.
The Netanyahu announced in November and a ten-month moratorium on building new housing in West Bank settlements, but exempted areas that Israel considers part of Jerusalem and the Jewish housing projects in the eastern sector of the city occupied by Israel in 1967, noting that Israel considers all of Jerusalem its united eternal, while Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of the state they hope to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Arab League will meet tonight to respond to the decision of Israeli settlement
Alsumaria News / Beirut
Moved the Arab League today, to respond to the Israeli decision to build 1600 housing units for settlers in East Jerusalem, which would overthrow the U.S. efforts to begin indirect negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis, announced the Secretary-General of the Arab League to a meeting of representatives of Arab States will be held on Wednesday evening to take a clear decision, which he described as "Israel's recklessness," while the prime minister ruled out the country to see the Arab summit held last month in Libya, a crucial decision on the subject.
The delegates of Arab States held a meeting time evening Wednesday in Cairo to take "a clear decision" in response to the Israeli decision, according to the Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, after meeting with Secretary-General of the Arab League Amr Moussa in Doha.
Sheikh Hamad said "there will be a meeting today to representatives of Arab States, Amr Moussa, and there will be a clear decision to respond to the Israeli action."
Asked about the possibility of taking a decision thereon during the Arab summit to be held in the last month in Libya, "I do not think a crucial role in the decision of an Arab summit on this issue", stating that "the Arab situation is not so well."
For his part, Amr Moussa said that "we Sntdarc positions during the meeting to be held in Cairo this evening, and raise an immediate recommendation to the ministerial level to hold, turn to the Arab summit to be held at the end of the month in Libya," with reference to the "possibility that the complexity of the Arab Ministerial Committee meeting within days. "
Moussa added that "contacts were made with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the Arab foreign ministers and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the U.S. envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain Miguel Angel Moratinos, who heads the European Council of Ministers," adding that "All seemed to upset of the Israeli challenge to the whole world, and international law, and the mediator, and any policy that could lead to peace. "
He said the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States to say, "The recklessness in Israeli politics and reached the stage where serious and very satisfactory can not be tolerated."
And approved this week the Palestinians, who were calling for a freeze of building as a condition for resumption of talks suspended since December 2008, the indirect negotiations with Israel under U.S. mediation, but did not specify a location or the timing or agenda yet.
Revealed secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Abed Rabbo said many Arab countries the U.S. administration was informed on Tuesday that the decision of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee on the indirect negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians is no longer valid. "
Simultaneously, he denounced U.S. Vice President Joe Biden again during a joint press conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday, Israel's decision to build a new settlement units in East Jerusalem, a decision that threw a shadow over his declaration to Israel, which focused on reassuring Israelis that President Barack Obama is committed to their security in against potential Iranian nuclear threat.
Abbas has said his part, that Biden's visit is good, but the continuation of settlements would destroy all chances of peace. "
The Palestinians expressed satisfaction Wednesday by the United States to condemn the Israeli decision, while condemned the French Foreign Ministry said Israel's settlement plans.
The French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said in a statement, "This resolution is not appropriate at all in time to resume the peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as, it is illegal under international law."
The Israeli Interior Ministry said Tuesday that the plan was to build houses on land annexed by Israel, near Jerusalem.
The Netanyahu announced in November and a ten-month moratorium on building new housing in West Bank settlements, but exempted areas that Israel considers part of Jerusalem and the Jewish housing projects in the eastern sector of the city occupied by Israel in 1967, noting that Israel considers all of Jerusalem its united eternal, while Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of the state they hope to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
