Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Sunday, January 15, 2017

UK voices ‘reservations’ about Paris peace conference

15 January 2017, 9:16 pm Edit

Britain cited “reservations” over Sunday’s Middle East peace conference and refused to sign a joint statement that called for a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A Foreign Office spokesman said the British had “particular reservations” about the meeting in Paris taking place without Israeli or Palestinian representatives, “just days before the transition to a new American president”.

Britain had therefore attended the talks as an observer only, the spokesman said.

— AFP