Norway, which chairs a group of international donors to the Palestinians, urged Israel on Tuesday not to move ahead with its plan to apply sovereignty to large parts of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley.
Norway heads the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC), which met on Tuesday, partly to discuss Jerusalem's plan to apply Israeli law extend its sovereignty to Jewish settlements and the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, occupied territory that Palestinians seek for a state.
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"Any unilateral step would be detrimental to the [peace] process, and annexation would be in direct violation and contravention of international law," Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide said.
Norway helped to broker the 1993 Oslo Accords, which provided for interim and limited Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Soereide said she had spoken on Tuesday with her Israeli counterpart, Gabi Ashkenazi, to urge Israel to resume direct talks with the Palestinians and avoid unilateral moves.
"It would undermine the potential for a two-state solution," she said.
The AHLC meeting also urged donors to fulfill their financial commitments to the Palestinian Authority and the United Nations' Palestinian aid agency to help fight the spread of the new coronavirus.
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