HC Deb 22 March 1971 vol 814 c15W
76. Mr. Mayhew

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will call on the Security Council to condemn the construction of large blocks of suburban flats for Jewish people in Arab Jerusalem, as an act injurious to peace and violating the principle, asserted in Resolution No. 242 of the Security Council, of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory through conquest.

Mr. Godber

The Security Council, by its Resolution No. 267 of 3rd July, 1969, passed unanimously, has already censured, in the strongest terms, all measures unilaterally taken to change the status of the city of Jerusalem. The status of Jerusalem must fall to be discussed as an important aspect of the settlement which Her Majesty's Government are most anxious to see achieved in the Middle East as a whole.

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