UN committee calls for Washington to recede on Jerusalem

CAIRO – 8 December 2017: The United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) expressed deep concerns over Washington’s recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel, Russia Today reported from a CEIRPP statement on Friday.

The committee called for Washington to recede its decision on moving U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The committee said in a statement after an emergency meeting on Thursday that these unilateral decisions are considered violations to UN related decisions, including resolution 476 and 478 (1980), and Security Council resolution 2334 (2016), as well as General Assembly resolution 181 (II), which provided the partition of Palestine into two States.

The committee said in the statement that Jerusalem is of huge importance to both Israel and Palestinians. It contains religious and cultural sites sacred to the three major monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

The statement also mentioned international condemnation from the United Nations for all the decisions that aim to change the demographic nature of the Palestinian occupied lands since 1967, including the identity of eastern Jerusalem.

CEIRPP called on the international community to exert collaborative efforts in enforcing the peace process and activating the regional and international treaties to end the Israeli occupation which started in 1967, according to the two-state solution, based on the 1976 borders, with Eastern Jerusalem as the capital for an Independent Palestine.

CEIRPP was established in 1975, by UN General Assembly resolution 3376 , which requested it to recommend a program of implementation to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable rights to self-determination without external interference, national independence and sovereignty; and to return to their homes and property from which they had been displaced, according to UN official website.