Washington is promoting Israel-Arab ties while dismantling Arab Peace Initiative launched by Saudi Arabia in 2002, says Moscow's UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia.
Nebenzia points to violent attacks including by illegal Israeli settlers, arbitrary arrests, "unprecedented" settlement expansion and Israel's forced expulsion of Palestinian families. [File] / Photo: Reuters
Wednesday's statement by Russia's UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia at the UN Security Council's monthly meeting on the Mideast also implicitly criticised Saudi Arabia — without naming it — for moving toward establishing diplomatic relations with Israel while taking"aggressive illegal actions" including an"unprecedented" expansion of settlements on territory that is supposed to be part of an independent Palestine.
The council meeting took place a day after Saudi Arabia's newly appointed envoy to the Palestinian Authority, Nayef al-Sudairi, made a first trip to the Israeli-occupied West Bank since the 1967 Mideast war.
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