AS Menentang Seruan "Sepihak" Palestina ke PBB

 Washington - Menteri Luar Negeri AS Hillary Clinton, Rabu, memperingatkan mengenai "tindakan sepihak" yang dilakukan dalam dialog Palestina-Israel, setelah Palestina mengajukan permohonan ke PBB mengenai pembangunan permukiman Yahudi.

"Perundingan antara semua pihak adalah satu-satunya cara yang bisa menjadi sarana untuk menyelesaikan semua klaim yang muncul dari konflik tersebut," kata Hillary kepada wartawan ketika ditanya tentang rencana Palestina unutk meminta Dewan Keamanan menangani masalah permukiman yang telah membuat macet pembicaraan perdamaian, sebagaimana dikutip dari AFP dan Reuters.

"Kami tak mendukung semua langkah sepihak oleh pihak mana pun yang dapat menjadi praduga bagi hasil perundingan semacam itu," kata diplomat senior AS tersebut.

Presiden Palestina Mahmoud Abbas telah meminta Dewan Keamanan PBB bertemu guna membahas pembangunan permukiman Yahudi di wilayah Palestina yang dijajah Israel di Tepi Barat Sungai Jordan, tempat rakyat Palestina bermaksud mendudukan negara.

Israel, Senin, mengatakan negara Yahudi itu akan mengizinkan rencana untuk membangun 1.300 apartemen baru di tanah di Jerusalem dan sekitarnya, yang dicaplok oleh Israel setelah Perang Timur Tengah 1967.

Sebanyak 800 unit rumah lagi direncanakan dibangun di Ariel, bagian utara Tepi Barat.

"Sesuatu harus dilakukan di tingkat internasional guna menghentikan perluasan permukiman yang sedang dilakukan pemerintah Israel di Tepi Barat, termasuk Jerusalem," kata Nabil Abu Rudainah, jurubicara Abbas, Rabu (10/11).

Abbas telah menginstruksikan delegasinya ke PBB, tempat Palestina memiliki status pengamat, untuk mengajukan permintaan bagi pertemuan tersebut, kata Abu Rudainah.

Pembicaraan perdamaian dukungan AS dengan tujuan mengakhiri konflik Palestina-Israel melalui pembentukan negara Palestina macet akibat sengketa tentang pembangunan permukiman.

Anggota delegasi Palestina, Riyad Mansour, mengatakan melalui telepon dari New York ia akan mengajukan permintaan melalui negara-negara Arab --yang memiliki status anggota penuh.

Di PBB, para diplomat mengatakan Manour telah berbicara melalui telepon, Rabu, dengan Duta Besar Inggris Mark Lyall Grant, yang saat ini memangku jabatan presiden, tentang kemungkinan pertemuan tapi tak menyebutkan tanggal yang pasti.

Abbas, yang menentang kekerasan dalam mewujukan negara Palestina, telah mengatakan perundingan langsung dengan Israel tetap jadi pilihan utamanya untuk mewujudkan perdamaian.

Ia juga telah mengatakan ia akan mengupayakan dukungan AS dan Dewan Keamanan PBB bagi berdirinya negara Palestina kalau-kalau pembicaraan tersebut gagal, bagian dari "proses perdamaian" yang dimulai dua dasawarsa lalu.

Presiden AS Barack Obama, Selasa, mengatakan rencana pembangunan permukiman itu tak membantu bagi pembicaraan perdamaian. Ia menambahkan tak satu pihak pun telah melakukan upaya tambahan guna mencapai terobosan.

(ANTARA News) 


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Appeal Against U.S. "Unilateral" Palestine to the UN

Washington - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday warned of "unilateral acts" committed in the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue, after a Palestinian request to the UN regarding the construction of Jewish settlements.
"Negotiations between all parties is the only way that could be a means to settle all claims arising from the conflict," Clinton told reporters when asked about the Palestinian plan fatherly ask the Security Council deal with the problem of settlements that have made the peace talks stalled, as cited from AFP and Reuters.
"We do not support any unilateral steps by either side that could be prejudice to the outcome of such negotiations," said a senior U.S. diplomat.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has asked the UN Security Council met to discuss the construction of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories that Israel occupied the West Bank, where the Palestinians intend to put your state.
Israel on Monday, saying the Jewish state will allow the plan to build 1300 new apartments on the ground in Jerusalem and its surroundings, which annexed by Israel after the 1967 Middle East War.
A total of 800 units planned to be built more houses in Ariel, the northern West Bank.
"Something must be done at international level in order to stop the expansion of settlements the Israeli government is doing in the West Bank, including Jerusalem," said Nabil Abu Rudainah, a spokesman for Abbas, on Wednesday (10/11).
Abbas has instructed its delegation to the UN, where Palestinians have observer status, to submit the request for the meeting, said Abu Rudainah.
US-backed peace talks with the aim of ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the establishment of a Palestinian state stalled due to disputes about settlement construction.
Members of the delegation of Palestine, Riyad Mansour, said by telephone from New York he would submit a request by Arab nations - who have full member status.
At the United Nations, diplomats said Manour had spoken by telephone Wednesday with British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, who is currently president assumes office, about a possible meeting but did not mention the exact date.
Abbas, who opposes violence in mewujukan Palestinian state, has said direct talks with Israel remain a primary option for peace.
He also has said he would seek U.S. support and the UN Security Council for the establishment of a Palestinian state in case the talks fail, part of the "peace process" that began two decades ago.
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the plan of settlement construction was not helpful to peace talks. He added that no-one had been doing extra effort to achieve a breakthrough.