UAE join 7 nations in condemning Israeli rejection of Gaza peace plan

The Foreign Ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have condemned Israel's rejection of the Road Map for completing the implementation of US President Donald Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict.

The statements say the Israel position amounts to a direct repudiation of the Comprehensive Plan, jeopardising its implementation and fundamentally undermining the collective efforts undertaken to achieve a just and lasting peace.

It adds that such rejection confirms that Israel now bears responsibility for obstructing the efforts to bring peace in Gaza and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

The Road Map, which has been accepted by the Palestinian factions, is the conclusion of extensive efforts exerted by the mediators, namely Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, the US, the High Representative of Gaza and the Board of Peace and constitutes a vital milestone for the decommissioning of weapons concurrently with the withdrawal of Israeli forces, the deployment of the International Stabilisation Force, the transfer of the administrative authority to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza and the reconstruction of Gaza as stipulated in the Comprehensive Plan.

The Ministers underscored the importance of sustained and active US engagement to ensure and enforce Israel’s full compliance with the commitments and arrangements envisaged under the Comprehensive Plan and its Road Map, and to prevent further obstruction of their implementation.

The Ministers reaffirmed the urgent need for the full and immediate implementation of the Comprehensive Plan in order to address the grave humanitarian situation, ensure security and stability for all in Gaza, and pave the way for reconstruction and recovery and advancing a just and lasting peace grounded in the Palestinian right to self-determination and statehood in accordance with international law, paving the way for security and stability for the region.

They added that a just, lasting and comprehensive peace will only be achieved by the implementation of two-State solution, by the realisation of an independent and sovereign Palestinian State based on the 1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital in accordance with international law and relevant United Nations resolutions.

Joint Statement by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, KSA, and Egypthttps://t.co/ka4iFxXDFy https://t.co/A3yYqNUuG1

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