Palestine Condemns Blocking of EU Statement against US Embassy Move

Rasa - The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement on Saturday strongly condemning the governments of Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic for blocking the release of a statement by the European Union (EU) that rejected US plans to officially open its Israeli embassy in Jerusalem.

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Date: 13 May 2018 - 22:18

RNA - The statement said that the position of these three states contradicts the EU’s policy and its previous stances towards Jerusalem, Ma'an News Agency reported.

While Israel officially annexed East Jerusalem in 1980, according to Palestinians and the international community the city has remained an intricate part of the occupied Palestinian territory and would be considered the capital of any future Palestinian state.

The ministry called the actions of the three states a “clear breach of international law, UN resolutions, the Geneva Conventions and human rights principles”, that “encourage the Israeli occupation authority to continue violating international law”.

The official ceremony for the relocation of the US embassy in Jerusalem will be held on Monday in the Jerusalem district of Arnona and coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian people’s Nakba or catastrophe which marks the creation of Israel in which 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their land.

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