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“Livni to Ban: Oppose Abbas's Unilateral Moves”
by Arutz Sheva
October 14th, 2014

Justice Minister tells UN chief that backing PA's moves at the UN sends a message that negotiations can be bypassed.

Livni and Ban Ki-moon (archive)

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Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) told United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday that it is important to oppose Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s unilateral moves to achieve statehood through the UN.

Failure to do so, Livni told Ban, sends Abbas a message that he can avoid negotiations.

“The Palestinians’ attempts to advance statehood on their terms through the UN must be resisted,” Livni wrote on her Facebook page.

“Any negotiations are based on mutual compromises, and the world should support such a process, in which the interests of both parties are represented and each is required to make decisions and compromises on his part,” she continued.

“Unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state sends Abbas the wrong message, whereby he can avoid negotiations and also avoid making the decisions that are required on his part - this is what I said a short while ago at a meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who is visiting the country,” wrote Livni.

Ban, who came to Israel after attending an international donors’ conference in Cairo, also met with opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog who, like Livni, called for a resumption of peace negotiations with the PA.

“A diplomatic settlement with the Palestinians is an Israeli, Palestinian and regional interests. It should be promoted through direct negotiations between the parties immediately,” wrote Herzog on his Facebook page. “This is why I accept the remarks of Egyptian President Al-Sisi at the conference in Cairo, who said that the time has come to end the conflict and change the painful destinies of the people in the region.”

“This is the main message that I gave to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, at our meeting in Jerusalem tonight,” added Herzog.

Earlier Monday, the UN chief met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who slammed Ban’s remarks the day before that “occupation” was the reason for the fighting in Gaza.

Ban also met with President Reuven Rivlin, who stood up for Israel's right to self-defense and told the UN chief that the onus is on the Palestinian Arabs to disarm.

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