Trump Denies Embassy to be Moved to Occupied Al-Quds within A Year
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US President Donald Trump denied on Wednesday that the planned relocation of the US Embassy in Occupied Palestine to Al-Quds would take place within a year, after the entity's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected the move to happen by then.
Trump in early December recognized Occupied Al-Quds as "Israel's" capital and set in motion the process of moving the embassy from Tel Aviv, imperiling Middle East peace efforts and upsetting the Arab world and Western allies alike.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said last month the embassy move was "probably no earlier than three years out, and that's pretty ambitious," a timeframe that administration officials have attributed to the logistics of finding and securing a site as well as arranging housing for diplomats.
Netanyahu, according to "Israeli" reporters traveling with him on a trip to India, said on Wednesday: "My solid assessment is that it will go much faster than you think - within a year from now."
Asked about Netanyahu's comment, Trump told Reuters in an interview that was not the case. "By the end of the year? We're talking about different scenarios - I mean obviously that would be on a temporary basis. We're not really looking at that. That's no."
Trump last week canceled a trip to London to open the new diplomatic mission, blaming his White House predecessor Barack Obama for selling off the old one for "peanuts" in a bad deal.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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