New York, July 28, SPA -- Qatar has reaffirmed that the achievement of a comprehensive peace in the Middle East should be based only on the principle of land for peace and references including the relevant UN resolutions and the Arab peace initiative that had been re-emphasized at the Arab Summit held in Doha last March. In a speech delivered last night at the UN Security Council in its open debate on the situation in the Middle East including the Palestinian cause, Plenipotentiary Minister and Acting Chargé D’affaires at Qatar's Permanent Delegation to the United Nations in New York Salem Mubarak Al Shafi said that his country, which believes that the solution to the Palestinian cause comes through the existence of two states living in peace side by side, believes that the Israeli government's attempts to expand settlements undermine the chances of achieving a two-state solution based on the borders of 1967. --SPA www.spa.gov.sa/688164