"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that he concluded with UN Secretary General Guterres that current and future construction by the UN at the Government Palace will be carried out in accordance with the principles of zoning and building laws.
However, it turns out that only recently has UNTSO [United Nations Truce Supervision Organization] issued a tender for the demolition and reconstruction of one of the buildings built during the British Mandate in the Armon Hanatziv compound - in violation of the law and without a building permit from the Jerusalem Municipality.
As part of the preliminary legal process, in which the Regavim Land of Israel movement requested a court order to stop the work, the State admitted that the construction work was done without authorization and is illegal...
It turns out that even as the State declared a 'practical dialogue', the United Nations issued a contractor's tender for the demolition of a two-story building in the Armon Hanatziv compound, in order to build a new building there, even though it had not received any legal permit to carry out the work..."