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Intel: Biden vows to reopen Palestinian delegation in Washington

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Tuesday that he would move to reopen the Palestinian delegation in Washington, which President Donald Trump closed in 2018.

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi, U.S., March 8, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RC2YFF9OJ3JY
Democratic US presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi, March 8, 2020. — REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Tuesday that he would move to reopen the Palestinian delegation in Washington, which President Donald Trump closed in 2018. The former vice president, who has vowed to keep the US Embassy in Jerusalem, also promised to reopen the US Consulate for the Palestinians in East Jerusalem and restore Palestinian aid.

“A priority now for the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace should be resuming our dialogue with the Palestinians and pressing Israel not to take actions that make a two-state solution impossible,” Biden told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I will reopen the US Consulate in East Jerusalem, find a way to reopen the [Palestine Liberation Organizations’] diplomatic mission in Washington, and resume the decadeslong economic and security assistance efforts to the Palestinians that the Trump administration stopped.”

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