Palestine on Monday called on the international community to press Israel to comply with relevant UN Security Council resolutions, saying that there is an international consensus in which Israel has to withdraw from occupied territories and the Palestine state to be born.

The statement came as the Palestinian permanent observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, was speaking to reporters here after the UN Security Council adopted a presidential statement to support the realization of the two-state solution.

The presidential statement contains "many positive elements and it is the responsibility of the international community to bring Israel into compliance of these elements," he said.

Earlier on Monday, the Security Council adopted a presidential statement to call "renewed and urgent efforts" by the parties and the international community to achieve "a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East" on the basis of "the two-state solution."

"It is high time for the international community to shift gears and to tell Israel there will be consequences if you do not respect and abide by the international consequences and by all previous commitments and obligations," he said.

"For us, Palestine, we wanted to strengthen this (presidential)statement, as many other members of the Council, especially with regard to clearly state that the occupation that started in 1967 should be ended and that the settlement of Israel should be frozen completely and the issue of Jerusalem should be mentioned," he said. "In spite of these reservations, we think that this statement contains elements that Israel has to abide by them and if not, it is the duty of the international community to bring them into compliance."

"We believe there is an international consensus in which Israel has to withdraw from occupied territory and the Palestinian state to be born," Mansour said. "If these elements are not implemented and if the international community cannot resolve to practical measures in order to bring Israel into compliance, then extremists from both sides will have the upper hand and obviously the prediction of King Abdullah of Jordan would become highly probable."

On the two-state solution supported by the international community, he said: "When we talk about two states, it is a Palestine State to be next to Israel on the borders of 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital, a just solution to the refugee question and, of course, the removal of the settlement and illegal things that are done by Israel as an occupying power."

He expressed "the need of the will from the international community, from the Security Council, from the Quartet to bring Israel into compliance."

"This is a very appropriate time" for the Security Council meeting, he said, referring to open Council meeting, chaired by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, whose country holds the rotating Council presidency for this month.