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<title>Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives and reaffirming long-standing United States policy in support of a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</title>
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<action-date>2017-01-05</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Declares that a viable and sustainable two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be achieved through direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.</p> <p>Calls for the United States to continue to:</p> <ul> <li> support a durable and sustainable two-state solution;</li> <li> oppose, and if necessary, veto future United Nations Security Council resolutions that seek to impose solutions to final status issues or that are one-sided and anti-Israel; and</li> <li> work with Israelis and Palestinians to create the conditions for successful final-status peace negotiations.</li> </ul> <ul> </ul>]]></summary-text>
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