(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said Saturday Israel should abide by rules of the international law and UN resolutions vis-a-vis the Middle East peace process, rejecting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.
Fahmy made the remarks during a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who was visiting Cairo to attend President-elect Abdulfattah Al-Sisi's inauguration ceremony tomorrow.
Fahmy and Abbas discussed the stalemate of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations as well as efforts to revive them, according to official MENA news agency.
It quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Bader Abdulaati as saying Abbas expressed concern anew over the Israeli settlement expansion policy in occupied East Jerusalem.
Fahmy reiterated Egypt's support to the Palestinian position in the peace talks, and said East Jerusalem as an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territories.
Egypt, he said, would always be behind the Palestinians until the establishment of their independent state on the June 4 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
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