Sentence examples for issues of settlements from inspiring English sources

Egypt's foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said the United States had to provide "guarantees about issues of settlements".

It was not a sensitive or complicated policy matter, like the "thorny" issues of settlements, land confiscations, collective punishments or other violations of international law.

He said 80percentt of the blame rests with the "inability and unwillingness" of Netanyahu and Abbas to bridge the gaps on the key issues of settlements, refugees, borders and Jerusalem.

With no prospect of an agreement on the core issues of settlement building, future borders of a Palestinian state and the status of Jerusalem being addressed in a substantive way, it is perhaps unsurprising that the process has devolved into brinkmanship.

Basically, he replaced the contentious issue of settlements with an even more contentious matter: boundaries.

But the top Israeli official said that the issue of settlements was still a major concern.

"The issue of settlements is clear: we never gave up our vision, whether now or previously".

The Oslo agreement of 1993 did not touch the issue of settlements.

And the Palestinians believe that Israel must be pressed firmly on the issue of settlements.

"We should not isolate this issue of settlements and make it the most important one.

But we do not believe that the issue of settlements is relevant to the present cycle of violence".