MOSCOW, July 29./TASS/. The speech of a US representative at a session of the UN Security Council on the Middle East on July 24 once again demonstrated the US attitude toward wrecking the legal framework of the Middle East settlement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a commentary circulated on Monday.

"A destructive position of the Americans, running counter to approaches of the overwhelming majority in the international community, once again demonstrated the policy aimed at wrecking the internationally recognized legal framework for the Middle East settlement, formalized in UN Security Council resolutions that Washington supported among others," the ministry said.

It drew attention to "a speech at the UN Security Council session on July 24 made by US Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt, who openly hinted that the search for consensus on the Middle East settlement within the UN was pointless, while respective resolutions of the Council were good-for-nothing."

The foreign ministry reiterated that on July 25, the US blocked an attempt by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa to get the Security Council to denounce the demolition of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem.

"We are referring to illegal, from the point of view of international law, actions by the Israeli side on the occupied Palestinian territories," the ministry stated. It also added that Washington’s unilateral approaches stood in the way of Arab-Israeli settlement.

"We, for our part, are convinced that unilateral actions in which international law is ignored, practiced by the Americans, won’t produce results," the ministry stressed. "They are harmful for prospects for a fair and long-term settlement of the long-standing Palestinian-Israeli problem," the foreign ministry concluded.