Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will not hold a planned meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence following Washington’s policy shift on Al-Quds, an Abbas aide said on Saturday.
“There will be no meeting with the vice president of America in Palestine,” diplomatic adviser Majdi al-Khaldi told AFP. “The United States has crossed all the red lines with the Al-Quds decision,” he added.
The White House warned on Thursday that cancelling the meeting planned for later this month in the West Bank would be “counterproductive”, but Abbas has been under heavy domestic pressure to shun Pence following President Donald Trump’s recognition of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as the Zionist entity’s capital.
Jibril Rajoub, a senior member of Abbas’s Fatah party, told AFP the same day that Pence was “not welcome in Palestine”
Pence is expected to visit occupied Palestine sometime before Christmas.
Source: AFP
