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Resistance, key to rightful Palestinian demands
[Iran Press TV Latest] The Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani stresses that the solution to the Palestinian problem lies in collective and serious resistance against the Zionist regime. "Due to firm and strenuous resistance shown by the Lebanese Hezbollah movement as well as the Palestinian nation, Palestinians and Arabs could witness considerable and impressive achievements in the struggle against Zionist expansionist policies," Larijani remarked in a meeting with the visiting Omani Foreign Minister Yusef Bin Alawi Bin Abdullah, in Tehran on Saturday. The prominent Iranian official meanwhile reiterated that Tel Aviv has never paid heed to legitimate Palestinian demands. He also condemned Israel's continued expansion of settlements in the West Bank. Larijani's comments come a day after the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not be formulated as long as Tel Aviv continues to erect settlements in the West Bank. "A solution has to be found ... but a solution will not be found as long as the settlements continue to be expanded," the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told foreign journalists in Berlin on Friday. Under the 2002 Roadmap for Peace that was brokered by the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia, Israel has to 'dismantle settlement outposts erected since 2001 and also freeze all settlement activity'. More than 285,000 Israelis currently live in the settlements — considered by the international community as having been illegally constructed. The settlements are erected on occupied lands that the Palestinians claim for a future state. Posted by: Fred 2009-07-12 |
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