Qatar reiterates international law, legitimacy basis for permanent settlement of Middle East

Doha: The State of Qatar reiterated that a permanent, comprehensive, and just settlement of the Middle East issue will only be achieved on the basis of international law, international legitimacy resolutions, and the Arab Peace Initiative, leading to ending the occupation of all occupied Arab lands, including the Syrian Golan and the occupied Lebanese territories, ending settlements, a just solution to the issue refugees, and the Palestinians enjoy their inalienable rights, especially their right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent and viable Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the vision of the two-state solution.

This came in the statement of the State of Qatar made by H E Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Ambassador Sheikha Alia Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani before the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly on all its items.

Qatar’s statement stressed that the two-state solution is the solution agreed upon by the international community as the only possible way to reach a lasting peace. It also underlined the need not to prejudice the existing status of Al Quds Al-Sharif and the Islamic and Christian sanctities, especially the Al Aqsa Mosque.