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India, China and Russia Refrain from Seeking East Jerusalem as Palestinian Capital
(Deccan Herald-India) Anirban Bhaumik - India, Russia and China refrained from seeking east Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine after foreign ministers of the three countries met in New Delhi on Monday. The joint statement issued after the meeting called for "negotiations aimed at creating an independent, viable, territorially contiguous Palestinian State living side by side in peace and security with Israel within mutually agreed and internationally recognized borders," with no reference to east Jerusalem. The last joint statement issued by the foreign ministers of the three nations at their meeting in Moscow in April 2016 had categorically called for east Jerusalem to be the capital of the future state of Palestine.