Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 22 January 2013.
William Hague
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
11:30,
22 January 2013
To be clear, the Israeli response is to the passing of the Palestinian resolution, not to the UK abstention; the hon. Gentleman may have misunderstood the motivation behind Israel’s policy, which clearly relates to the passing of the resolution.
As to the implications for future relations with the EU, provided that there is a major initiative on the peace process, in particular from Washington, we will all have to work out the incentives and disincentives that we can create to support that. But of course that is work to be done over the coming weeks and months.