Sisi meets with Palestinian president in Cairo on Monday

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi invited his Palestinian counterpart President Mahmoud Abbas to hold a consultative bilateral summit in Cairo on Monday, Presidency spokesperson Bassam Radi said on Sunday. 

The summit is scheduled to tackle developments of the latest decision of the U.S President Donald Trump of recognizing the Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It also will discuss means of dealing with the crisis in a way that preserves rights of Palestinians, their national sacred and legal right in establishing an independent state and a capital of the Eastern Jerusalem. 

For his part, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived Cairo on Sunday evening in a two-days visit upon an invitation by President Sisi in order to meet to dicuss latest developments, the Palestinian ambassador to Cairo and its permanent representative to the Arab League Diab al-llouh said.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived Cairo late Sunday for a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Monday to discuss developments following the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, state owned MENA agency reported. 

Monday’s meeting comes following an invitation extended by El-Sisi to Abbas to hold a bilateral consultations summit to discuss developments related to the US decision, as well as means of dealing with the crisis in a way that preserves the rights of the Palestinian people, according to an Egyptian Presidency statement. 

 On Sunday, El-Sisi and Abbas agreed in a phone call on the importance of intensifying communication with different international partners to explain potential negative repercussions of the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

 The two leaders discussed the implications of the decision, as well as ways of reaching a just solution that would guarantee the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to establish their own independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

 On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump announced that the US would recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing a decades-old US policy that the status of the city must be determined in negotiations with the Palestinians. The Palestinians hope to establish an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

 Trump's decision has sparked anger in Palestinian territories and Arab countries, and has been met with condemnation from countries around the world. Egypt has officially condemned the decision, maintaining its official stance supporting the two-state solution with East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. The Arab League's foreign ministers also called Sunday on the US to revoke its decision on Jerusalem and expressed its support for a Palestinian state on the 4 June 1967 lines with East Jerusalem as its capital.