Li Muzi
Xinhua
The Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov gave his final briefing to the UN Security Council as the secretary-general’s Middle East peace envoy this week.
Mladenov closed out his six-year tenure with a bleak update on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2334.
That resolution, adopted in 2016, reaffirms the illegality of Israeli settlements on occupied territory.
It also “stresses that the cessation of all Israeli settlement activities is essential for salvaging the two-state solution.” The resolution calls on states to distinguish between Israel and the territories it has occupied since 1967.
The Security Council receives a quarterly update on the implementation of the resolution.