{"id":12061,"date":"2019-03-05T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T01:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=12061"},"modified":"2019-03-05T10:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T02:02:33","slug":"plo-slams-u-s-for-closing-consulate-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=12061","title":{"rendered":"PLO Slams U.S. For Closing Consulate In Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RAMALLAH, Palestine, Mar 5 (NNN-WAFA) &#8211; The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), slammed the US for closing its consulate in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The closure of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem and merging it with its embassy in Israel is a violation of the resolutions of international legitimacy that Washington contributed to drafting it,&#8221; an official PLO press statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It added that &#8220;the peace process has to be revived throughout an international peace conference, attended by the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In light of the closure of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, the PLO decided to carry on with its decision of stopping political ties with the U.S. administration and its representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Palestinian Authority is boycotting the U.S. since the declaration of U.S. President, Donald Trump, in Dec, 2017, which considered Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved his country&#8217;s embassy to Jerusalem in May last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Trump&#8217;s declaration, the Palestinians are calling for a new international mechanism to sponsor the peace talk with Israel, which stopped in 2014, after the U.S. sponsored it for nine months without reaching any breakthrough.&#8211; NNN-WAFA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH, Palestine, Mar 5 (NNN-WAFA) &#8211; The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), slammed the US for closing its consulate in Jerusalem. &#8220;The closure of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem and merging it with its embassy in Israel is a violation of the resolutions of international legitimacy that Washington contributed to drafting it,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,301],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}