  {"id":199521,"date":"2013-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=199521"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:47:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:47:59","slug":"auto-insert-199521","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-199521\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by EU High Representative Ashton on the latest Israeli announcement on settlements &#8211; EU press release\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#212100;text-align:right;font-size:8pt;font-family:Calibri, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Brussels, 07 November 2013<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#212100;text-align:right;font-size:8pt;font-family:Calibri, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>131107\/01<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#004080;text-align:center;font-size:20pt;font-family:Calibri, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">S T A T E M E N T<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#212100;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#212100;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>on the latest Israeli announcement on settlements<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, issued the following statement today:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i><br \/>\n&quot;Following the announcement on 3 November by the Israeli authorities about tenders for 1859 settlement units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, I must reiterate the EU&#39;s longstanding policy on settlements.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>The EU has repeatedly stated that settlements are illegal under international law and that bold and decisive leadership is needed for the current peace negotiations to succeed.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>The EU deplores the latest settlement announcement and calls on the Israeli government to reverse its decision. Any actions that could hamper or undermine the on-going negotiations must be avoided.&quot;<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">___________________<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27403%27%20height%3D%2795%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20403%2095%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27403%27%20height%3D%2795%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2d033e5672a1c40785257c1c0051d06a_image0.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"95px\" width=\"403px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels, 07 November 2013 131107\/01 S T A T E M E N T by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on the latest Israeli announcement on settlements The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, issued the following statement today: &quot;Following the announcement on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-199521\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[897],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2505],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2185,1797,1905,2137],"entity":[1889,1985],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-199521","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-european-union-eu","document-subject-legal-issues","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-peace-proposals-and-efforts","document-subject-settlements","entity-intergovernmental-organization-or-multilateral","entity-state","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/199521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/199521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=199521"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=199521"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=199521"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=199521"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=199521"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=199521"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=199521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}