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Egypt’s Sissi urges Trump not to ‘complicate the region’ by moving embassy
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEgyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi tells US President Donald Trump in a phone call that Egypt opposes moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Sissi’s spokesperson Bassam Radhi says Trump called the Egyptian to discuss the “planned decision to by the American administration to move the US embassy to Jerusalem.”
Sissi, according to his spokesperson, tells Trump the Egyptian position is “to maintain the legal status of Jerusalem in the framework of international…decisions.”
The Egyptian leader affirms “the necessity of not complicating the state of the region by taking measures that would undermine the chances for peace in the Middle East.”
— Dov Lieber
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