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The United Nations Security Council will meet on Friday, 8 December, at the request of eight states on the 15-member body, over US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, diplomats said on Wednesday.
Trump abruptly reversed decades of US policy on 6 December, generating outrage from Palestinians and defying warnings of Middle East unrest. Trump also plans to move the US embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
Israel considers the city its eternal and indivisible capital and wants all embassies based there. Palestinians want the capital of an independent Palestinian state to be in the city's eastern sector, which Israel captured in a 1967 war and annexed in a move never recognised internationally.
A UN Security Council resolution adopted in December, last year, "underlines that it will not recognise any changes to the 4 June 1967 lines, including with regard to Jerusalem, other than those agreed by the parties through negotiations."
That resolution was approved with 14 votes in favor and an abstention by former US President Barack Obama's administration, which defied heavy pressure from long-time ally Israel and Trump for Washington to wield its veto.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley praised Trump's decision as "the just and right thing to do".
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