Lebanon: FM Asks Gov’t to Open Embassy in Al-Quds
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Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil announced Thursday that he "submitted a memo to the government to establish a Lebanese embassy in al-Quds, the capital of Palestine."
"I raised with the Palestinian president the issue of exchanging land lots between Lebanon and Palestine to this end and he promised me to exert quick efforts to offer Lebanon a land lot in East al-Quds," Bassil added in a tweet.
"God willing, the Cabinet should take a decision today," Bassil went on to say.
He further called for an Arab popular uprising and for diplomatic, political and economic Arab measures against US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize al-Quds as the so-called ‘capital' for the ‘Israeli' entity.
"Al-Quds cannot belong to a unilateral state... Al-Quds is for Jews, Christians and Muslims. We are the sons of Abraham, Jesus and Mohammed, we all want to pray in Al-Quds and we will not accept to be prevented," said Bassil at an emergency Arab League meeting in Cairo on Saturday.
Later on Thursday, the Lebanese Cabinet formed a ministerial panel led by Prime Minister Saad Hariri to study Bassil's suggestion.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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