Qatar has welcomed the Australian foreign minister's announcement that her government will officially reinstate the term "Occupied Palestinian Territories" and consider Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal.
In a statement Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered the announcement a positive stance that reflects the Australian government's commitment to international law and resolutions of international legitimacy, and at the same time reinforces all efforts aimed at achieving a just, comprehensive and sustainable peace on basis of the principle of the two-state solution.
The statement reiterated Qatar's firm position on the just of the Palestinian Cause and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people in establishing their independent state on the 1967 boarders with its capital in East Jerusalem.
