Coming under intense pressure from Arab and Islamic countries for saying it will no longer refer to east Jerusalem as “occupied,” Australia reaffirmed Thursday that its position on the “legal status of the Palestinian territories, including east Jerusalem,” has not changed.
The clarification came in a meeting Australian Foreign Minister Julia Bishop had in Canberra with representatives of the Islamic and Arab countries accredited to the Australian capital.
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