  {"id":209331,"date":"2014-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=209331"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:44:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:44:27","slug":"auto-insert-209331","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-209331\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany concerned about Israel&#8217;s settlement plans in Givat Hamatos &#8211; Germany&#8217;s FFO 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:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>press release<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;color:#0041c2;padding-bottom:10px;text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Federal Foreign Office concerned about plans<br \/>\nto construct more settlements in East Jerusalem<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">date of issue<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">02.10.2014<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Following the Israeli Government&#8217;s publication of Plan 14295 on tenders for the construction of 2610 new settlement units in Givat Hamatos A, a Federal Foreign Office spokesperson issued the following statement in Berlin today (2 October):<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8220;The German Government is deeply concerned about the Israeli Government&#8217;s decisions on extending the Givat Hamatos settlement. We call upon the Israeli Government to retract these decisions and refrain from calling for tenders or issuing construction permits in the area.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The German Government&#8217;s standpoint on Israel&#8217;s settlement policy is clear: the building of settlements hampers the peace process and the two-state solution to which Israel has committed itself.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Particularly unsettling is the fact that the new units would be in the politically highly sensitive East Jerusalem, separating it yet further from the West Bank. This undermines the viability of a future Palestinian state and would run counter to Israel&#8217;s commitment to a negotiated two-state solution.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:4px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">That is why we and the whole international community have repeatedly warned against new settlements in Givat Hamatos.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-top:8px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.auswaertiges-amt.de\/sid_F01FEBA01CBD3E668C2960834E5FCB27\/EN\/Infoservice\/Presse\/Meldungen\/2014\/141002-ISR_Siedlungsbau.html\" style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana, san-serif;\">http:\/\/www.auswaertiges-amt.de\/sid_F01FEBA01CBD3E668C2960834E5FCB27\/EN\/Infoservice\/Presse\/Meldungen\/2014\/141002-ISR_Siedlungsbau.html<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>press release Federal Foreign Office concerned about plans to construct more settlements in East Jerusalem date of issue 02.10.2014 Following the Israeli Government&#8217;s publication of Plan 14295 on tenders for the construction of 2610 new settlement units in Givat Hamatos A, a Federal Foreign Office spokesperson issued the following statement in Berlin today (2 October): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-209331\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[846],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2365,1961,2185,1805,1797,2137,2741],"entity":[1985],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-209331","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-germany","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-subject-international-presence","document-subject-jerusalem","document-subject-legal-issues","document-subject-occupation","document-subject-peace-process","document-subject-settlements","document-subject-statehood-related","entity-state","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/209331","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\/209331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=209331"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=209331"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=209331"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=209331"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=209331"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=209331"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=209331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}