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Arab nations back Palestinian claim to Jerusalem

ARAB nations declared support for Palestine’s rights to East Jerusalem over the weekend, urging worldwide opposition to the US agenda.

Foreign ministers of six Arab League nations and the bloc’s secretary-general Ahmed Aboul Gheit met in Jordan’s capital Amman on Saturday to compose a joint response to US president Donald Trump’s unilateral recognition of Israel’s claim to Jerusalem as its capital.

The committee of ministers from Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates was formed at the December 9 emergency Arab League summit in Cairo.

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