The Arab states of the Gulf said on Friday that US President Obama’s speech this week to the UN General Assembly can be a basis for reaching a Middle East peace agreement.
“We believe the content of (the president’s) speech constitutes a basis for reaching a just and global solution to conflict in the Middle East,” Abdulrahman al Attiya, secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council, said in a statement.
“It is time to recognise a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as capital” on “territory occupied in 1967,” he said.
The GCC’s members are Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman.
Obama said in Wednesday’s speech: “We continue to emphasize that America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements” in occupied territory.
The US president also called for a resumption of talks between Israelis and Palestinians without pre-conditions on security for Israelis and Palestinians, borders, refugees and Jerusalem.
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