PM Rishi Sunak’s spokeswoman seems to desert the relocation evaluate ordered by former UK chief Liz Truss.
The UK has “no plans” to relocate its Israel embassy to Jerusalem, in line with a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, dismissing his predecessor’s evaluate right into a doable transfer of the embassy away from Tel Aviv.
The spokeswoman for Sunak, who changed Liz Truss as prime minister final week, informed reporters on Thursday that the relocation thought had been “checked out” beneath the earlier administration.
When requested if the UK was nonetheless contemplating the relocation, she mentioned the federal government had “no [such] plans”.
The UK has for many years housed its embassy in Tel Aviv, the place most different international locations have their diplomatic outposts, regardless of Israel designating Jerusalem as its capital.
Truss’s announcement in late September that she was contemplating relocating the embassy to Jerusalem was welcomed on the time by Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid however provoked a backlash from the Palestinian authorities, pro-Palestinian teams, British church leaders and European international ministers, amongst others.
Jerusalem stays on the coronary heart of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian battle, with the Palestinian Authority (PA) insisting that East Jerusalem – illegally occupied by Israel since 1967 – ought to function the capital of a Palestinian state.
There's a international consensus towards recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital till the Palestinian battle is resolved.
However the US opened an embassy within the metropolis in 2018 beneath former President Donald Trump, breaking with many years of US coverage by recognising it as Israel’s capital.
The transfer was welcomed by Israel and criticised by the Arab world and Western allies.
On the time, the UK, beneath the management of then-Prime Minister Theresa Could, mentioned it had no plans to maneuver its embassy and publicly disagreed with the US transfer.
Presently, solely the US, Kosovo, Honduras, and Guatemala have their embassies in Jerusalem.
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