News archive on the topic "Jerusalem"

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic noted that after the recognition of Kosovo by Israel, the attitude towards some points of the Washington Agreement has changed. Vucic spoke about this when answering a journalist’s question whether Serbia will remain committed to the Washington agreements. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, after a meeting with the American and European negotiators responsible for the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Matthew Palmer and Miroslav Lajcak, President...

The Palestinian Ambassador to Serbia, Mohammed Nobhan, reacted harshly to the opening of the Kosovo “embassy” in Jerusalem the day before. Nabhan promised Pristina trouble from the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, last Sunday the “Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora” of Kosovo announced the official opening of the Kosovo Embassy in Israel with headquarters in Jerusalem as part of...

US State Department spokesman Ned Price welcomed the establishment of diplomatic relations between Kosovo and Israel. This was reported by EkonomiaOnline, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We view the establishment of diplomatic relations between Pristina and Jerusalem as a diplomatic event of great significance to the US State Department,” Price said. – The United States congratulates Israel and Kosovo on establishing diplomatic relations. This day was...

The League of Arab States made a statement regarding Kosovo's intention to open an embassy in Jerusalem. League Secretary General Ahmed Abdul Gheit called such actions illegal. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the Arab League “stands categorically against the intention” of Kosovo to open an embassy in disputed Jerusalem in accordance with the Washington Agreements. “Any decision to open an embassy in Jerusalem is illegal because...

Turkey's Foreign Ministry said Kosovo's intention to open a representative office in Jerusalem violates international law. The corresponding statement appeared on the website of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that the conditions under which mutual diplomatic recognition of Kosovo and Israel were achieved violate UN resolutions. Also, the official representative of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

Israeli Foreign Minister Gabriel Ashkenazi and Kosovo Foreign Minister Meliza Haradinaj Stubla signed an agreement on joint recognition and establishment of diplomatic relations. Thus, despite the departure of Donald Trump, the Washington agreements signed under him continue to be implemented. “We are making history, we are establishing diplomatic relations between Kosovo, this is an important moment,” Ashkenazi said during the ceremony, reports...

In fact, during negotiations in Washington, US President Donald Trump slipped Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic a clause on the transfer of the country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which provoked a real international scandal. After the signing of the agreement with the “Jerusalem clause” in the text, both Serbia and the separatist authorities of Kosovo found themselves in an awkward position. A video has appeared on social networks...

“I recognize only one Orthodox Church in Ukraine - which is headed by Metropolitan Onuphry,” Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem said recently. At the same time, he recalled that, according to the teaching of the holy fathers, schism is the most serious sin. Obviously, this refers to the sin, first of all, of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The latter is not the only demarche of His Beatitude Theophilos in relation to...

Israel could use blackmail to negotiate with the newly elected Ukrainian president on the future recognition of Jerusalem as the unified Jewish capital. Kiev political scientist Dmitry Dzhangirov said this on the YouTube channel “Glavnovosti”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “I have some information from Israel. This is the general pressure on Zelensky’s entourage, I have the impression that Zelensky is being pushed as, on his part,…

The newly formed “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” of which Petro Poroshenko is so proud, was refused by the Patriarch of Jerusalem to participate in the miracle of the descent of the holy fire. This once again proves that such a church, despite all Ukrainian statements, is recognized in the world only by Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. If the elected President Zelensky, like Poroshenko, follows the path of deceiving the people, the same humiliating awaits him...

The Jerusalem Patriarchate did not allow the delegation of the schismatic “Holy Church of Ukraine” (“SCU”), created by Petro Poroshenko, to attend the service for the descent of the Holy Fire, which is held jointly by representatives of local autocephalous Churches on Holy Saturday in the Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulchre. According to a representative of the Jerusalem Patriarchate, the HCU delegation did not receive blessings to participate in the service. She didn't even get an appointment with...

As might be expected, Trump's foolish decision to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem did not come without shock. On the eve of the official opening ceremony of the US embassy in the new location, the Palestinians launched an uprising, further fueled by the 70th anniversary of the Nakba - a national catastrophe that marked the beginning of the endless Palestinian-Israeli war, accompanied by intifadas, outbreaks of violence and the ordeal of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Opening ceremony of the new embassy...

The Ukrainian delegation found itself next to the Russian one today in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem during the descent of the Holy Fire. Therefore, oligarch Vadim Novinsky appeared on the live broadcast of the Russian NTV channel. But that is not all. According to tradition, Arab Christians moved around the temple with music and shouts. One of them was wearing a T-shirt with the image of the President of the Russian Federation...

Russia and Ukraine may fight each other, but when it comes to condemning Israel, they become friends. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinsky made this statement on his Facebook page. “Russia and Ukraine can fight each other, but when it comes to condemning Israel...