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December 17, 2008

Security Council OKs Vague Support for Two-State Solution
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The United Nations Security Council has approved a vague measure
supporting a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. It was
the first Security Council resolution on the issue to pass in nearly
five years. Several others have failed under threat of a US veto. But
the measure does not address any of the key issues surrounding the
conflict, including what most see as the key obstacle to peace, the
presence of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The
Palestinian observer at the UN, Riyadh Mansour, said peace talks should
continue into next year.

Riyadh Mansour: “It is unfortunate that, as many speakers in the Council
have indicated, that we did not reach a peace treaty as we were promised
at the end of 2008. The question now is, we should learn lessons from
the fact that we did not succeed in 2008, to remove these obstacles from
the path of the process to increase our chances of succeeding in the
year 2009.”



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