From Kerry denies US orchestrated UN resolution
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleKerry says every US administration recognizes East Jerusalem as territory taken by Israel in 1967.
“We fully respect Israel’s profound historic” ties to “the city and its holy sites,” he says.
We also reject that “the United States was the driving force” behind the resolution, he says.
“The United States did not draft or originate this resolution — nor did we put it forward,” Kerry says, dismissing allegations by Israel that Washington pushed the initiative.
But he says that it’s a “standard practice” that if the final draft of the text was balanced, “it was possible we wouldn’t block it.”
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