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Recall envoys from US, Palestinian minister suggests Arabs

Cairo - Maliki also said members of the Arab League should summon US ambassadors.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al Maliki suggested on Thursday that Arab countries should recall their ambassadors to the United States in response to Washington moving its Israel embassy to occupied Jerusalem.
"There is no harm in Arab states collectively recalling their ambassadors in Washington to their capitals for consultations," Maliki said in live televised remarks at the Arab League in Cairo.
The United States opened its new Israel embassy in occupied Jerusalem on Monday in a controversial move from Tel Aviv that has brought wide condemnation. Israeli soldiers killed dozens of Palestinians who protested in the Gaza Strip while the embassy opened.
Maliki also said members of the Arab League, whose foreign ministers gathered in Cairo on Thursday for an extraordinary meeting to discuss the issue, should summon US ambassadors "to remind them of the Arab rejection of the US embassy's transfer to Jerusalem".
He said Arab states had agreed at previous summit meetings that they would cut ties with any country that moves its embassy to Jerusalem.