US ambassador contradicts Donald Trump on two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Source: The Independent
Americas ambassador to the United Nations has said the US absolutely supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, directly contradicting comments made by Donald Trump just a day ago.
The US President told reporters after a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu that his administration was no longer wedded to the creation of a Palestinian state.
The remarks signalled a departure from America's decades-old approach to Middle East foreign policy.
But Nikki Haley, Mr Trump's appointment for ambassador to the UN, said the US remained committed to a two-state solution.
She said anyone who believed the US was abandoning the policy did so in error.
The UN envoy said: "We are thinking out of the box as well, which is: What does it take to bring these two sides to the table? What do we need to have them agree on?
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-ambassador-donald-trump-two-state-solution-contradicts-israel-palestine-conflict-latest-a7584386.html
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Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)herding cats
(19,558 posts)From day to day, and sometimes in the same day, it changes.
lark
(23,083 posts)Hair Furor can't stand someone in his administration contradicting him, she'll be out like a light and quickly.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)She seems to think there should be a consistent foreign policy. Silly woman.