RAMALLAH, Sept 4 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Ishtaye, yesterday, called on U.S. President, Joe Biden’s administration, to fulfil its promises to the Palestinian Authority, including reopening the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem.
“We call on Washington to accelerate the implementation of what it has promised, mainly reopening the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem and removing Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) from the list of terrorism,” Ishtaye said, in a press statement.
Ishtaye made the remarks at a meeting with a U.S. Democratic Party delegation, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, according to the statement.
He urged the delegation to exert more pressure on Israel, to allow the holding of the Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections in East Jerusalem, and the entire Palestinian territories, without any restriction.
Meanwhile, according to the statement, Ishtaye explained to the U.S. delegation that, the U.S.-backed principle of the two-state solution “is in danger,” due to Israeli measures against the Palestinians, mainly settlement building and expansion.
Israel seized the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East war, and continues to occupy it despite international criticism.– NNN-WAFA
