Trump denies U.S. embassy to be moved to Jerusalem within a year
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Source: Reuters
#WORLD NEWS JANUARY 17, 2018 / 3:55 PM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO
Exclusive: Trump denies U.S. embassy to be moved to Jerusalem within a year
Reuters Staff
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump denied on Wednesday that the planned relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would take place within a year, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected the controversial move to happen by then.
Reversing decades of U.S. policy, Trump in early December recognized Jerusalem as Israels 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.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said last month the embassy move was probably no earlier than three years out, and thats 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.
Jerusalem is home to sites holy to the Muslim, Jewish and Christian religions. The Palestinians want East Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and annexed in a move not recognized internationally, as the capital of their future state.
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