US President Donald Trump has denied plans to transfer the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem within a year.
“In one year, we are talking about different scenarios,” Trump said in an exclusive interview with Reuters on Wednesday when asked whether he plans to move the embassy in a year. “I mean it’s clear that this will take time, We look at this way this way.”
Earlier in the day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his conviction that the US embassy would be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem within a year.
In a statement to Israeli journalists on his way from New Delhi to the state of Gujarat on his visit to India, Netanyahu said the embassy would move faster than many expect, within a year from today.
The US president announced on December 6 that the United States officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and ordered the transfer of the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the Holy City, in violation of all UN resolutions on the legal character of Jerusalem.
The US president’s decision on Jerusalem caused a wave of anger in the Arab and Muslim worlds, and was rejected by most Western countries.
Against the backdrop of the United States vetoing Egypt’s draft resolution to condemn the Trump Declaration, Turkey and Yemen submitted the document to the United Nations General Assembly, and the overwhelming majority of its members (128) voted on December 21, For the project.