UK still supports two-state solution: Boris Johnson
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British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 8, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has reaffirmed London's support for the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling it the only alternative to an “apartheid system.”
According to Press TV, Johnson told Israeli media on Wednesday “What we are saying is that you have to have a two-state solution or else you have a kind of apartheid system. You have to go for a two-state approach that is the long-standing position of the government.”
The foreign secretary made the remarks while answering a question about US President Donald Trump’s remarks that a two-state solution is not important as long as both sides agree.
Johnson, who was on a one-day tour of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, told Netanyahu on Wednesday that Israel should consider the two-state solution and make peace with its neighbors.
Netanyahu, for his part, downplayed Israel’s expansive policies as a major block to achieve peace in the region, asserting that Tel Aviv and London do not agree “on all things.”
According to sources in Netanyahu’s office, Zionist regime’s settlement building activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories were a highlight of the meeting between the two.
The source said Netanyahu had expressed frustration with the “obsessive approach that the settlements are the root of the conflict.”
The UK was among the 14 countries that voted unanimously in favor of the UN Security Council Resolution 2334 last year, which calls on the Tel Aviv regime to put an immediate end to its illegal settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories including East al-Quds.
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