Turkish foreign minister to attend UN meeting on Jerusalem
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will travel to New York for Thursday's special session of the UN General Assembly to discuss the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, foreign ministry sources said on Wednesday.
They said the minister would go to the United States after meeting his Iranian and Azeri counterparts in Baku on Wednesday. One official said he would travel via Istanbul and be accompanied by Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki.
Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour has said the General Assembly would vote on a draft resolution calling for the US declaration to be withdrawn. The draft was vetoed by the United States in the 15-member UN Security Council on Monday.
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has sharply criticised Trump's move, and hosted a summit of Muslim leaders last week which called for eastern Jerusalem to be recognized as the capital of Palestine.
