UN Mideast envoy calls on Security Council for action to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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The U.N.'s top Mideast envoy is challenging the Security Council to step up and lead the way to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Robert Serry in his final briefing to the council on Thursday said the international community should seriously consider presenting a framework for negotiations that "may be the only way to preserve the goal of a two-state solution."
He also sharply criticized Israel's illegal settlement building, saying it "may kill the very possibility of reaching peace on the paradigm of two states for two peoples."
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Serry spoke a day after Israel's prime minister struck a conciliatory tone as he was formally chosen to form a new government following an acrimonious election campaign.
The Palestinian ambassador to the U.N. quickly told reporters he totally agrees with Serry's comments.