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Wed 12 Dec 2009Jerusalem should be capital for two states, says EU
EU FOREIGN ministers have called for a swift resumption of Middle East peace talks, arguing that a way must be found for Jerusalem to become the future capital of both a Palestinian state and Israel.
Although they dropped a Swedish proposal to refer to East Jerusalem as the future capital of a Palestinian state, the statement is the ministers’ first explicit declaration that the city should be the capital of both states.
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