Jordan Times
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Jordan condemns new settlements
AMMAN (JT) - Jordan on Monday strongly denounced Israel’s decision to build nearly 700 new settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem and called for an immediate end to settlement activity, Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications and Government Spokesperson Nabil Sharif said in a statement to the Jordan News Agency, Petra, yesterday.
Jordan also condemned “Israel’s recent acts of killing and incursion against the Palestinian people and Palestinian homes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which led to the martyrdom of six Palestinians, three in Nablus and three others in Gaza”.
Sharif called on Israel to “immediately refrain from such assaults and acts of aggression against the Palestinian people”, stressing that continuing with such an approach will destroy peace efforts and threaten the region’s stability.
He said Jordan called on Israel to abide by international conventions and to respond to peace efforts to arrive at the two-state solution, through the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, according to Petra.