AMMAN/JORDAN, November 2, 2011 (WAFA) – Jordan condemned on Wednesday the Israeli decision to expedite settlement activities and to withhold the Palestinian Authority's tax revenues in response to Palestine's accession to UNESCO, considering this response unacceptable, according to an official.
Spokesman for the Jordanian foreign ministry, Mohammed Al-Kayed, told Jordan News Agency (PETRA) that “this Israeli escalation forms a strike against international efforts aiming to achieve Palestinian - Israeli peace and a flagrant challenge to the efforts of the international quartet committee aiming to resume negotiations.”
He called on Israel to stop these provocative and unilateral measures practiced in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including E.ast Jerusalem, describing them as entirely illegitimate.
He also called on Israel to engage in concrete steps to achieve the two-state solution through serious and specified and clear time frame negotiations that will lead to establishing an independent and sovereign Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders , with East Jerusalem as its capital and in accordance with international terms of reference.
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