Rabat - Morocco expressed its deep regret and disappointment at the UNSC's vote against a resolution to stop the Israeli colonization in Palestinian territories, a statement by the Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday.
"Following the vote by the UN security council on Tuesday against an Arab-Palestinian draft resolution meant to put an end to the Israeli colonization in Palestinian territories, the Kingdom of Morocco, whose sovereign HM King Mohammed VI chairs the Al Quds Committee, expresses its deep regret and disappointment at this decision," said the statement.
The source added that Morocco deems it unacceptable that, after half a century of occupation and 23 years of talks, the international community and the UNSC are still not shouldering their responsibilities to halt Israeli occupation, establish the independent state of Palestine in 1967 frontiers, living side by side with Israeli, and end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which threatens security and peace in the Middle East and the world.
The Kingdom of Morocco will continue supporting the Palestinian authority and backing the Palestinians' inalienable rights, on top of which the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Al Quds as capital, it concluded.