Palestinians to urge AL to boycott countries moving embassy to Jerusalem

RAMALLAH, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister Riad Malki said Thursday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) will urge in the upcoming Arab League (AL) summit to boycott countries that move their embassies in Israel to Jerusalem.

He said that the Palestinians will call on five Arab countries to implement the 1980 AL summit resolution to boycott those governments which relocate their embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The AL is expected to hold a ministerial conference on Jan. 6 in the Jordanian capital Amman and look into mechanism to press the United States to withdraw its decision on Jerusalem.

"We will urge the convention to demand Arab states to implement the resolutions of Amman summit in 1980, to suspend commercial and political ties with countries who move their embassies to Jerusalem or acknowledge the city as the capital of Israel," said Malki.

He added that Guatemala, which recently announced it would move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, would pay a price if it did not retrieve its decision, as the Latin American country sells more than 90 percent of cardamom to Arab nations.

Malki also expected that 10 other governments would move embassies to Jerusalem and recognize the city as Israel's capital, whom the Palestinians have contracts with, "part of which asserted that they will not take such a move."

Earlier this week, 138 members of the United Nations voted in favor of a resolution that rejected any changes to the position or status of Jerusalem, which was against Trump's declaration that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel on Dec. 6. Enditem