Arab parliaments call for severing ties with countries recognizing Jerusalem as Israeli capital

CAIRO - 10 February 2018: The Arab parliamentary speakers called for severing ties with any state recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital or relocating its embassy to it.

Heads of the Arab parliaments also urged the Arab League to take decisive action against the countries that did not abide by the resolutions of the international legitimacy by not voting in favor of the United Nations General Assembly resolution on Jerusalem on December 21.

In the Final communiqué of the third conference of the Arab Parliaments and Arab Parliamentary Speakers that kicked off here earlier in the day under the chairmanship of Arab Parliament Speaker Meshal bin Fahmi al Salami, entitled “ Palestine statement”, the Arab parliament speakers stressed their support to the Palestinian leadership and institutions as well as their moves that aimed at facing the U.S. decision on Jerusalem.

They also agreed to provide Palestine with the needed Arab support at all financial and political levels.

They voiced their utter rejection of S President Donald Trump’s decision on Jerusalem and implications based on it which constituted a flagrant violation of international law, adding the US administration became an untrustworthy peace sponsor and a distrusted broker in the Middle East peace process

The Arab speakers urged the UN to lead a peace process, protecting the sovereignty of Palestine on its territories and the legal statue of Jerusalem in line with the UN resolutions and the Arab initiative 2002.

They also agreed to continue implementing the Arab parliament’s plan to confront Israel's bid for holding a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council for 2019/2020.

They Arab speakers stressed that the major threat facing the eradication of terrorism is Israeli occupation’s exercise of terror and its denial of the Palestinian people's legitimate right to establish an independent state with Al Quds as its capital.