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US vetoes UN draft on settlements - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

US vetoes UN draft on settlements - Middle East - Al Jazeera English: "The US has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlements as 'illegal' and called for an immediate halt to all settlement building.

All 14 other Security Council members voted in favour of the resolution, which was backed by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), on Friday.

Mark Lyall Grant,, the British ambassador to the UN, speaking on behalf of his country, France and Germany, condemned Israeli settlements in the West Bank. 'They are illegal under international law,' he said.

He added that the European Union's three biggest nations hope that an independent state of Palestine will join the UN as a new member state by September 2011.

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