ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS

Motion Text

That this House condemns the continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories; notes that since February 2001 there have been 44 new settler outposts; further notes that these are in direct contradiction to any notion of a two-state solution and are also in direct violation of the 4th Geneva Convention and UN Security Council resolutions; recalls that the Mitchell Commission of January 2001 called for a freeze on all settlement activity; further notes that settlement products are entering the European Union at preferential trade rates, in violation of the EU-Israel Trade Association agreement; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to raise these issues within the UN and EU.