“Honouring these three requirements is also a fundamental step towards reviving the two-state solution. The international community should not just talk the talk in its support for the two-state solution, or take the support for direct Palestinian-Israeli negotiations as an excuse for shirking one’s own responsibilities,” Geng said, adding that the country with major influence on the parties concerned should make concrete efforts to advance the Middle East peace process and “should not unjustifiably prevent the Security Council from arriving at the minimum consensus on the Palestine-Israeli issue.”
Geng reiterated China’s position, indicating that the country “will continue to firmly support the Palestinian people and their just cause to restore their legitimate national rights, and support the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent state of Palestine based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
