Lebanon: Arabs should consider economic sanctions on US over Jerusalem

Lebanon: Arabs should consider economic sanctions on US over Jerusalem

Arab League foreign ministers hold an emergency meeting on Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Cairo, Egypt.

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CAIRO: Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said on Saturday that Arab nations should consider imposing economic sanctions against the United States to prevent it moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

“Pre-emptive measures (must be) taken against the decision … beginning with diplomatic measures, then political, then economic and financial sanctions,” Bassil said at a meeting of foreign ministers at the Arab League in Cairo.

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