(MENAFN) Donald Trump becomes US president this week. In an interview on Sunday in The Times and the German newspaper Bild, he explained his current thinking on the Middle East.
In detail, a resolution adopted by the UN Security Council in December condemned settlements in the West Bank as "a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-state solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace."
Trump condemned the Obama administration"s choice to abstain from the resolution, rather than veto it. "I think it [the resolution] was terrible. It should have been a veto," he told Gove. "I think it was terrible."
"The UK may have another chance to veto if what I'm hearing is true, because you know, you have a meeting as you know, this weekend," he said in reference to the Paris conference. "And there are a lot of bad stories being circulated.
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