US renews aid to Palestinians, backs two-state solution
Acting US Ambassador to the UN Richard Mills said Washington will push for Arab-Israeli normalisation. “Yet, we recognise that Arab-Israeli normalisation is not a substitute for Israeli-Palestinian peace,” he said.
Wednesday 27/01/2021
Then-US Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, shake hands in Ramallah, West Bank, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. (AP)
NEW YORK - UNITED NATIONS - US President Joe Biden’s administration announced Tuesday it was restoring relations with the Palestinians and renewing aid to Palestinian refugees, a reversal of former US President Donald Trump’s administration’s cutoff and a key element of its new support for a two-state solution to the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.