Israel makes 'big efforts' to prevent another UN resolution

Israel is making "very big efforts” to prevent another anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted by the Israeli newspaper the Jerusalem Post as saying on Sunday.

Netanyahu's comments came at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, in which he pointed out that the French-led Mideast summit in Paris is just a few days away

The prime minister has said in recent days that he is worried decisions made at the conference will be turned into a resolution on the diplomatic process that will then be taken to the Security Council.

The prime minister again welcomed the US House of Representatives resolution last week that slammed UN Security Council resolution 2334 that Washington allowed to pass last month. 

The House motion called for the Security Council resolution to be “repealed or fundamentally altered so that it is no longer one-sided and anti-Israel; and it allows all final status issues toward a two-state solution to be resolved through direct bilateral negotiations between the parties.”

The House measure also said that “any any future measures taken in international or outside organizations, including the United Nations Security Council or at the Paris conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict scheduled for January 15, 2017, to impose an agreement, or parameters for an agreement including the recognition of a Palestinian state, will set back the cause of peace, harm the security of Israel, run counter to the enduring bipartisan consensus on strengthening the United States-Israel relationship, and weaken support for such organizations.”

Source: MENA