The German Foreign Ministry criticized on Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's raising of a map that does not show the occupied Palestinian territories in his speech at the 78th session of the United Nations in New York.
German Foreign Ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer said Netanyahu's removal of a map that did not show the occupied Palestinian territories and territories annexed by Israel was unacceptable.
Fischer added that their permanent mission in New York to the United Nations had submitted a report on Netanyahu's speech to express their refusal to raise the map.
Fischer said this did not benefit Berlin's efforts to achieve a negotiated two-state solution.
The Israeli prime minister raised a map that read it represented the "new Middle East", not including the occupied Palestinian territories and those annexed by Israel, in his speech last Friday to the United Nations General Assembly.
Netanyahu said in the speech that the Palestinians should not be given the right to veto new peace treaties with Arab countries, adding that Israel's past peace efforts have failed, because they were based on the misconception that unless we reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians, no other Arab country will normalize its relations with Israel.