URGENT US State Department spokesman backs Trump decision on Jerusalem

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump's announcement that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel has yet to be implemented, in an effort to calm Arab and international public opinion, saying that the limits of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem are subject to final status negotiations Between the Palestinian and Israeli sides.

 "President Trump is committed to the peace process, and that has not changed. The kind of rhetoric that we have heard has prevented peace from happening in the past. We are still working hard to develop our plan ... and we think that will benefit the two peoples," the State Department said on its official website, Heather Neuert on Twitter. Israeli and Palestinian alike. "

"The limits of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem are subject to final status negotiations between the two sides. The United States does not take any position on any final status issues and will support a two-state solution," he said.

"We hope to continue to try to work with Israelis and Palestinians alike to try to impose some kind of peace agreement so that they can sit and talk about it, and we will continue to support that and we will continue to try to support both sides," Nuert said.