Comments by new Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee on New Zealand co-sponsoring a UN motion condemning Israel’s settlements in Palestinian territory are at odds with comments by Prime Minister Bill English.
Brownlee said on Wednesday the Security Council resolution passed last December had been “premature” and implied it should not have passed without Israel’s support.
He said on Radio New Zealand that the value of Security Council resolutions was in the “willingness of the parties who are having the resolution imposed upon them to accept what’s in it.”
But English, on the same day, said the resolution had been in line with New Zealand policy and that he did not regret New Zealand’s co-sponsorship.
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