Iran Press/Europe: Andrej Babis said that the Czech Republic will not relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to western al-Quds, saying that his government respects the European Union stance and United Nations resolutions on this issue. No country in Europe wants to move its embassy at the moment and the Czech Republic will not be the initiator, he continued.
According to Asharaq al Awsat, the PM urged that the UN agreements in this regard should be respected. Last year, Czech President Milos Zeman inaugurated the Czech House in Jerusalem in what was interpreted as a precursor to the relocation of its embassy. The United States had moved its embassy to western al-Quds in May 2018 despite widespread condemnation by Palestinians, Arabs and the international community. Guatemala then followed.
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Honduras and Romania had revealed that they were considering such a move. The Fatah movement welcomed Prague’s refusal to relocate its embassy in spite of American and Israeli pressure.
Fatah spokesman Jamal Nazzal said that countries’ ability to withstand such pressure and commit to international law reinforces the Palestinian leadership’s insistence on its rights.
The Zionist regime regards all of al-Quds as its capital, including the eastern sector that it annexed after the 1967 Middle East war, and wants all embassies based there.
The international community has largely rejected Zionists' claims to al-Quds, supporting the Palestinian view that eastern al-Quds is the capital of a future Palestinian state.104/203
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