Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said on Thursday that his country condemns Israel’s decision to “legalize” five settlement outposts in the occupied Palestinian territories.
He added that Norway finds it “totally unacceptable” that Israel has also decided to go ahead with approving the construction of 6,016 housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Norway, which recognized Palestine as a state in May, is a staunch supporter of a two-state solution to the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Interim peace deals were reached in Norway in the 1990s.
Source: Reuters
