UK voices 'reservations' over Mideast summit, refuses to sign statement [View all]
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Britain cited "reservations" over Sunday's Middle East peace conference and refused to sign a joint statement that called for a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A Foreign Office spokesman said the British had "particular reservations" about the meeting in Paris taking place without Israeli or Palestinian representatives, "just days before the transition to a new American president".
Britain had therefore attended the talks as an observer only, the spokesman said.
The British refusal to send a high-level delegation to Paris was widely viewed as a sign of London's determination to stay close to Donald Trump's incoming administration.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-voices-reservations-over-mideast-summit-refuses-sign-191350749.html
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