Abbas seeks EU support for Palestinians amid row with US
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will seek EU support in Brussels on Monday amid bitter acrimony with the United States, but he looks unlikely to get much the in way of concrete commitments.
In an interview with AFP on Sunday in Brussels, Palestinian foreign minister Riad al-Malki said Abbas would urge the European Union to officially recognise the state of Palestine "as a way to respond" to US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital.
Abbas, who last week denounced US President Donald Trump's peace efforts as the "slap of the century", will also "reiterate his commitment to the peace process" in the Middle East, Malki said in an interview with AFP in Brussels.
