The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution for all signatories of the Geneva Convention to participate in a meeting between Israel and the Palestinian Authority to discuss Israeli settlement activity. Palestinian officials, who circulated the resolution at the U.N., want the talks to be held in the context of the convention, which bans the usurpation of land by an occupying power. But Israel and the United States back a second plan for direct Israeli-Palestinian discussions under Swiss auspices.
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