Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Abul Gheith expressed his dismay “over statements by British Prime Minister Liz Truss to move the British embassy to Jerusalem”, stressing that “the Arab League rejects any unilateral action that constitutes a violation of international law as well as historical and the legal status of Jerusalem.

The Secretary General’s spokesman, Jamal Rushdie, pointed out that Abul Gheith’s statement was delivered yesterday during a speech at the British Conservative Party conference in which he called on the British government to follow practical policies and action plans to start a meaningful peace. process leading to the end of the Israeli occupation and the establishment of the independence of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.

Abul Gheith reminded the British government of the need to “adhere to the two-state solution as the agreed formula for a final settlement between Palestinians and Israelis and refrain from any illegal measures that might jeopardize the possibility of applying this formula to the ground in the future.”