The United States and several other countries have approached the Government of Israel with regard to Israel’s transfer of its Foreign Ministry from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it was revealed here today by a Foreign Ministry spokesman.
The spokesman was replying to a report by the Arab News Agency that the U.S. Government is exercising pressure on Israel not to transfer the Foreign Ministry to Jerusalem. He said that a high official of the American Embassy in Tel Aviv submitted a fortnight ago to the Foreign Ministry a communication expressing his government’s views on the transfer. However, the document did not include any demand, he pointed out.
The American communication, the spokesman added, also did not contain any questioning with regard to Jerusalem’s territorial status and its conversion into Israel’s capital by concentrating therein the Premier’s office as well as other government departments. He explained that the transfer of the Foreign Ministry from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was not a problem involving principles but was a purely technical problem.
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