By Russell Palmer on Radio NZ…
David Seymour says he has asked Foreign Minister Winston Peters to, in future, talk with ACT about New Zealand’s position on Israel before making decisions on it.
However, National’s deputy leader Nicola Willis says she would not have expected Peters to consult with other parties over a ministerial decision like that.
New Zealand last week voted in support of a UN resolution, affirming the International Court of Justice’s opinion that Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territory was unlawful.
Peters announced the move last Thursday, saying it was fundamentally a “signal of our strong support for international law and the need for a two-state solution”.
Peters said New Zealand’s support came with some caveats, which included concerns that the proposed one-year timeframe for Israeli withdrawal from the territory was unrealistic, and that the UN resolution went further than was envisaged by the ICJ’s advisory opinion.
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