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<p>Australia&#8217;s move followed similar actions in Europe including Spain, France, Britain, Sweden and Denmark in the wake of the Palestinians winning de facto UN recognition of statehood.</p>
<p>&#8220;Australia has long opposed all settlement activity,&#8221; Foreign Minister Bob Carr said in a statement after Israeli Ambassador Yuval Rotem&#8217;s meeting with senior Australian officials. &#8220;Such activity threatens the viability of a two-state solution without which there will never be security in Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Carr, whose country takes up a rotating UN Security Council seat next year, said Israel&#8217;s actions had complicated the chances of fresh negotiations between the two sides.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am extremely disappointed with these reported Israeli decisions,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The UN victory for the Palestinians was a diplomatic setback for the United States and Israel, which were joined by only a handful of countries in voting against the move to upgrade the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s observer status at the United Nations to &#8220;non-member state&#8221; from &#8220;entity,&#8221; like the Vatican.</p>
<p>There were 138 votes in favor, nine against and 41 abstentions, including Australia.</p>
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