Morocco Rejects Unilateral Attempts to Solve Palestinian Problem - Ambassador to Russia

MOROCCO (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 21st February, 2019) Morocco rejects any unilateral attempts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that, in particular, pertain to the issue of Jerusalem's legal status, as this only contributes of the suffering of the Palestinian people, Moroccan Ambassador to Russia Abdelkader Lecheheb said on Thursday.

"We reject all unilateral attempts to solve the Palestinian problem, we consider this to be a violation of intentional law. Morocco relentlessly continues to reaffirm that the attempts to distort the legal status of Jerusalem are the reason for sufferings of Palestinian people that continue until now," Lecheheb said at a roundtable discussion on the status of Jerusalem at the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency's press center.

US President Donald Trump has stated on numerous occasions that his administration has been preparing a so-called deal of the century for Israeli-Palestinian settlement.

However, Palestinians rejected Washington's involvement in the conflict settlement after Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved the US embassy there in 2018, despite UN recommendations to refrain from establishing diplomatic missions in the city until its legal status was settled.

Within the framework of the settlement process, the Palestinians have been demanding that the future borders between the two sovereign states run along lines that existed before the 1967 Six-Day War they have even said they are open to a possible exchange of territories. They hope to create their own state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with a capital in East Jerusalem.

Israel has refused to return to the 1967 borders and share Jerusalem, declaring the city its eternal and indivisible capital.