Moscow (December 23, 2017): Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said they both supported creating a Palestinian state, the Kremlin said the day after the UN rejected the decision by Washington to recognise Jerusalem as Israel´s capital.
In a phone call, the two leaders “discussed the situation of Middle East peace talks in the context of the resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on the status of Jerusalem,” the Kremlin said in a statement.
They “confirmed the mutual disposition to continue to assist in resolving the Palestine-Israeli conflict on the basis of international norms and realization of the right of the Palestinian people to create an independent state,” it said.
US President Donald Trump decided on December 6 to recognize Jerusalem as Israel´s capital.
On Thursday, the 193-member General Assembly adopted the motion to reject Trump´s decision by 128 to nine with 35 abstentions, though the US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the vote would make no difference in Washington´s decision.
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