Jordan's Lower House calls for emergency Arab Parliament meeting on Jerusalem

AMMAN, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Jordan's Lower House on Wednesday called for an emergency meeting for the Arab Parliament and the council of member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to come up with a unified position to face plans by the U.S. to relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The lower house stressed in a statement its rejection of such a step and called for meeting to look into the consequences of such a decision.

"I call for a unified stance in the face of such a decision by the U.S. administration to protect the Arabic Islamic and Christian identity of Jerusalem," Atef Tarawneh, lower house speaker, said in the statement.

There is a need for immediate measures to place pressure on the U.S. to go back on its plans, he said, adding that such a decision will put an end to the hopes of reviving peace talks.

This decision, he said, will lead to more frustration and tensions in the Arab world.

"Any U.S. step that is not based on the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital indicates international negligence of the necessity for stability in the Middle East as Jerusalem is the key to stability in the region and the world," he added.

Any change in the historic status of Jerusalem might lead to some consequences that cannot be absorbed, said Atef Tarawneh. Enditem