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"Mr President, Baroness Ashton, it was only on 8 June that you condemned settlement building in the occupied territories. Today, you referred for the umpteenth time to the fact that settlement building is illegal under the terms of international law. Furthermore, on 14 May, the Council reaffirmed in its conclusions on the peace process the fact that we must maintain the viability of a two-state solution.
Therefore, it is incomprehensible that we in the European Parliament are now being asked to vote in favour of the additional protocol to the association agreement with Israel on conformity assessment and acceptance of industrial products (ACAA). I think it is particularly important to make the following point. We have not yet had a clear explanation of the precise way in which products manufactured in the settlements are handled in the agreement between the EU and Israel. These products are still finding their way onto the EU market. Before we conclude any further trade agreements with Israel, we need to resolve this problem. We must investigate whether there are any effective mechanisms for monitoring this which can be introduced and implemented.
In the meantime, Israel continues to disregard its obligations under international law. More settlements are being built, enlarged and even relocated as Israel sees fit, while the EU stands helplessly by. A two-state solution is quite literally being buried under the settlements."@en1
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