FRANCE SAYS USA EMBASSY MOVE WILL BRING ‘SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES’:

Posted on Jan 17, 2017

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Sunday 5 Jan. 2016 that if USA President-elect Donald Trump moves the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem it would have "extremely serious consequences."Speaking as 70 countries gather in Paris to try to revive Israeli-Arab peace efforts, Ayrault told French TV he believed Trump would find it "impossible" to fulfill the pledge he made during his campaign to transfer the embassy. "When you are president of the United States, you cannot take such a stubborn and such a unilateral view on this issue. You have to try to create the conditions for peace," Ayrault said. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas warned hours before the Paris summit that peace could be dealt a mortal blow if Trump, who has vowed unstinting support for Israel, moves the USA Embassy to Jerusalem. Doing so would reverse decades of USA policy that has until now maintained that the final status of Jerusalem. (INN) Equation of terrorism, settlements is morally twisted