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US will back two-state solution if both sides agree - Mike Pence [View all]
Source: Reuters
US will back two-state solution if both sides agree – Mike Pence
Reuters in Cairo
Sun 21 Jan 2018 00.28 GMT
US vice-president Mike Pence has told Egypt’s leader that the US would support a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians if the two sides agreed to it, seeking to reassure a key Arab ally over Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Pence was in Egypt on Saturday on the first leg of a three-country tour that includes stops in Jordan and Israel.
It is the highest-level visit by a US official to the region since December, when Trump upended decades of US policy on Jerusalem in a move opposed by Arab leaders including Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.
“We heard President al-Sisi out,” Pence said after their meeting. He added that the Egyptian leader described his objection to Trump’s decision as a “disagreement between friends”.
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Reuters in Cairo
Sun 21 Jan 2018 00.28 GMT
US vice-president Mike Pence has told Egypt’s leader that the US would support a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians if the two sides agreed to it, seeking to reassure a key Arab ally over Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Pence was in Egypt on Saturday on the first leg of a three-country tour that includes stops in Jordan and Israel.
It is the highest-level visit by a US official to the region since December, when Trump upended decades of US policy on Jerusalem in a move opposed by Arab leaders including Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.
“We heard President al-Sisi out,” Pence said after their meeting. He added that the Egyptian leader described his objection to Trump’s decision as a “disagreement between friends”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/21/us-will-back-two-state-solution-if-both-sides-agree-mike-pence
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