The European Union's top diplomat said Monday that the 28-nation bloc's foreign ministers will study new ways to support the two-state solution on which the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process is based.
Federica Mogherini said that the EU is working "to support an international framework to accompany direct negotiations" between Israel and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' government, despite the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
President Donald Trump's Dec. 6 move to recognize Jerusalem, which the Palestinians also see as their future capital, broke with international consensus on the best way forward in Middle East peace moves.
Mogherini told reporters that "clearly there is a problem with Jerusalem. I would say that this is a very diplomatic euphemism."
She said that "the only pragmatic, realistic solution for Jerusalem has to come through direct negotiations."
