MOSCOW

Malaysia does not accept the U.S. decision on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan river, the country’s Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah said on Thursday.

Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, following the meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, Abdullah said the political solution is the best way to settle Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“Malaysia opposes the change of the U.S. position [on the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan river].

“We believe that a political solution is the best way forward that will allow the settlement of relations between

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