HC Deb 27 November 1996 vol 286 c290W
37. Mr. Gunnell

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what response he has made to recent Israeli pronouncements on additional settlement developments on the west bank. [4624]

Mr. Hanley

My right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary raised this issue with Prime Minister Netanyahu when he called on him on 3 November. We regard Israeli settlements on the west bank to be illegal, to be an obstacle to peace and to contravene the spirit of the Oslo agreements, by pre-empting final status negotiations.

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