Amman, Sept. 29 (Petra) -- Saudi Arabia has renewed its affirmation that the two-state solution is the only path to achieving a just and lasting peace during the participation of its permanent mission to the United Nations and international organizations in Geneva in the general debate under agenda item 7 on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories.

In a statement delivered by Director General of the General Administration of Humanitarian Affairs and the General Administration for International Positions and Nominations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Salem Al-Qahtani, the Kingdom condemned in the strongest terms the continued Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, stressing the need to uphold the ceasefire and ensure full protection for civilians.

He also expressed the Kingdom's condemnation of the expansion of settlement activities and settler terrorism, reiterating the categorical rejection of any measures aimed at forcibly displacing the Palestinian people or any attempts to alter the geographic or demographic character of the occupied Palestinian territory.

Al-Qahtani noted that Saudi Arabia values the important steps taken by several countries to recognize the State of Palestine and the subsequent strengthening of accountability measures, including restrictions on trade with Israeli settlements.

One year after the adoption of the New York Declaration, he renewed the affirmation of what was stated in the statement by the co-chairs of the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, that Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, constitute a single Palestinian territorial unit, and that the occupation must end.

The Kingdom renewed its affirmation that the only path to achieving a just, lasting, and comprehensive peace is the implementation of the two-state solution and support for the Palestinian people's inalienable right to self-determination and to establish their independent, sovereign state on the basis of the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

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