Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tells visiting Palestinian officials the Trump administration’s Mideast proposal would destroy all progress made so far in reaching peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
“For more than 2 years US colleagues have been promising to offer a ‘deal of the century,’” Lavrov says, according to the Russian embassy in Israel. “However, the available information makes it possible to evaluate this future ‘deal’ as destroying everything that has been done so far.”
He says Moscow is “unhappy” with the current climate in the region, and sees US involvement as “worrying.”
“We see the greatest danger in the #US position aimed at promoting unilateral approaches, breaking the key international legal basis for resolving the Palestinian problem,” he says.
Lavrov adds that from “what we hear,” the Trump administration deal will not lead to the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The Trump administration is putting the final touches on a “deal of the century” for the Middle East, but is not expected to publish the proposal until after Israel’s elections in April.
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