The Arab League said it will hold an urgent meeting Monday on the US announcement that it no longer considers Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank illegal.
Hossam Zaki, the pan-Arab body’s deputy secretary general, said several members had backed a Palestinian Authority call for a ministerial meeting.
The PA’s permanent representative to the Arab League has condemned Washington’s change of position – announced by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – as “illegal.”
Pompeo said on Monday that, after legal consultations, the US had concluded the establishment of settlements was “not, per se, inconsistent with international law.” The Cairo-based Arab League has said the US shift was an “extremely adverse development,” AFP reported.
Saudi Arabia rejects US position
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it completely rejects the Trump administration’s statement that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are no longer considered illegal under international law.
#Statement | #KSA confirms its total rejection of the US statement that the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not per se inconsistent with international law.
— Foreign Ministry ?? (@KSAmofaEN) November 20, 2019
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the Kingdom’s “total rejection of the US statement that the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not per se inconsistent with international law,” in a post on Twitter.
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