Pence faces rejections in upcoming trip to Middle East

Jerusalem

TO protest against the US declaration that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, neither the Palestinian Authority president nor the head of the Coptic Church in Egypt plan to meet with US Vice-President Mike Pence when he visits the Middle East later this month.

The rejections emerged as the Anadolu Agency said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to work together to persuade the US to change its stance on Jerusalem. Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi said the United Nations Security Council should now move to "bring the US to compliance".