UN official urges next Israeli government to stop settlement expansion
19/9/08
The UN’s Mideast envoy said Thursday that the peace process requires stepped-up action to reach an agreement by 2008 and that the next Israeli government should end the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Robert Serry, the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, said in a UN Security Council meeting that decisive progress must be made in settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as negotiations are at a crossroads. “While there are some positive developments, there are also several factors that cause concern,” Robert Serry told the UN Security Council. “The important period ahead must see decisive advances towards peace.”