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Ban calls on Israel to halt building in W. Bank, e. J'lem

By JPOST.COM STAFF

MARCH 30, 2011 00:36

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel to halt building in West Bank settlements and east Jerusalem in a statement read at a regional meeting supporting Israeli-Palestinian peace in Uruguay on Tuesday.

"The occupation that started in 1967 is morally and politically unsustainable, and must end. The Palestinians have a legitimate right to the establishment of an independent and viable State of their own," Ban told the told the UN Latin American and Caribbean Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, convened by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in a message delivered by Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco.

“Israel has the right to live in peace and security within internationally recognized and secure borders. A way must be found for Jerusalem to emerge as a capital of two States, Israel and Palestine, with arrangements for holy sites acceptable for all. And there must be a just and agreed solution to the prolonged plight of the Palestinian refugees,” the statement added.

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