NEW YORK, December 31, 2016 (WAFA) – Palestine’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, Friday called on the Security Council to take immediate follow-up steps to insure tangible results from its anti-settlement resolution 2334.

The resolution, which condemn Israeli settlement activities in occupied Palestine and calls on Israel to halt all such activity, was adopted on December 23 by 14 votes in favor with the United State abstaining.

In identical letters sent to the president of the Security Council and other member states, Mansour said that in blatant violation of the resolution, Israel seems intent in continuing with its settlement program in the occupied Palestinian territory, which he described as “contempt” for the Security Council and its 15 member states who adopted it.

“Clearly at the moment, all indications are … that Israel intends to proceed apace with its illegal policies, plans and measures in occupied Palestine, including East Jerusalem, in blatant contempt of Resolution 2334 (2016), in grave violation of its legal obligations, and in total contradiction to the two-state solution,” he wrote.

In response to the Israeli reaction to the resolution, Mansour urged the Council to take “serious and immediate follow-up efforts to give meaning and tangible effect to Resolution 2334 (2016).”

The Palestinian official called on the Security Council to stand firm by its decision “and by the law and to stand on the right side of history.”

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