(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Cairo, Feb 24 (Petra) –– Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Saturday called the US administration's decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem as "a new and dangerous episode in the series of provocations and wrong decisions that have been going on since December".
He said in a statement that the embassy relocation would kill the last hope for peace and coexistence between the Palestinians and Israelis.
The statement condemned the US State Department's announcement that the embassy will be transferred from Tel Aviv to the occupied city of Jerusalem by mid-May, coinciding with the Palestinians' commemorations of the Day of Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948.
The League's spokesman, Mahmoud Afifi, said Abul-Gheit will travel on Sunday with a delegation of five Arab foreign ministers to Brussels to put European foreign ministers and high representative for European policy, Federica Mujerini, on notice about the implications of the US embassy move.
The Arab League chief pointed out that the embassy move conciding with Nakba day "reveals the full bias for Israel and the absence of any rational reading of the nature and history of the conflict in the region." He stressed that the embassy move has no legal effect and will not change Jerusalem's status as occupied land, pointing out that the overwhelming majority of world countries had opposed the US decision in "a rare precedent that reflects the international consensus on the seriousness of prejudging final status issues or taking Jerusalem off the negotiating process." SS
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