UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese envoy on Monday called on the international community to advance the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Palestinian-Israeli question has been on the UN agenda for over seven decades. Each day of inaction by the international community is a disservice to peace, a betrayal of justice, and a failure to the next generation, said Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations.

"We call on all parties to show their conscience to uphold justice and fulfill their commitments with actions. We hope that the United Nations and the Security Council will take substantive steps to advance the two-state solution, and support the Palestinian people in restoring and exercising their inalienable rights so that Palestine and Israel can coexist in peace, the two peoples -- Arabs and Jews -- can live in harmony, and lasting peace can be achieved in the Middle East," he told a Security Council briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.

China supports the full implementation of the two-state solution. The historical injustice suffered by the Palestinian people cannot be prolonged indefinitely. Their legitimate national rights cannot be traded. And their demand for independent statehood cannot be vetoed. The international community should stay committed and work together to translate the two-state solution from consensus into action and from vision into reality, he said. Enditem

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