Israel said Monday that it rejected UNESCO's decision to accept Palestine as a member and would reconsider its ongoing cooperation with the cultural organization, DPA reported.
"This is a unilateral Palestinian manoeuver which will bring no change on the ground but further removes the possibility for a peace agreement," Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said in a statement.
The decision would not turn Palestine into an actual state, but only place more burdens on the route to renewing negotations. The "correct and only way" to make progress in the stalled peace process was through direct talks without preconditions, he said.
Israel thanked those countries who showed a "sense of responsibility" and opposed, but he called it "disappointing" that the European Union, which was working to renew direct negotiations, "could not reach a unified position to prevent this decision."
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