Peres Raises 'World Capital' Solution for Jerusalem
Tue Jul 22, 6:41 AM ET
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Shimon Peres, the head of Israel's opposition Labor Party,
has suggested resolving Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem by putting
its holy sites under U.N. stewardship, a spokesman said Tuesday.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Shimon Peres, the head of Israel's opposition Labor Party, has suggested resolving Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem by putting its holy sites under U.N. stewardship, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Israel claims Jerusalem as its capital, including the Arab eastern part captured
in the 1967 Middle East War and annexed in a move that is not recognized internationally.
Palestinians want to make East Jerusalem capital of the state they hope to establish
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (news - web sites) under a U.S.-backed peace
plan.
Peres raised the idea in a meeting with visiting Russian diplomats-in-training
when they asked how he envisaged a solution to conflicting Israeli-Palestinian
claims to the city, Dori said.
Israel has previously rejected proposals raised by the Vatican (news - web sites)
to internationalize Jerusalem.
Peres, a former prime minister and an architect of interim peace deals with
the Palestinians, has not raised the proposal with Israeli or Palestinian leaders,
Dori said.
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