ARAB COUNTRIES AND IRAN CONDEMNING EXPRESSION OF THE USA EXTERNAL
BUREAU CHIEF POWELL, JERUSALEM IS CAPITAL OF ISRAEL








DAMASCUS, 11 March (of RIA Nowosti rIA-Nowosti-Korrespondent Alexander
Krasnow).  Syria, the united Arab emirates, which Palestinians and
Iran have on Saturday the expression of the USA Aussenamtschefs Colin
Powell condemned, Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.  Powell
announced the intention of the United States of shifting their message
from Tel Aviv after Jerusalem.  The minister of foreign affairs of the
united Arab emirates, sheikh Hamdan Zaid aluminium-Nahyan ben,
explained opposite the USA Ambassador that its country feels deep
indignation and regret in connection with the expression Powells.  It
required an explanation of this expression of the USA Aussenamtschefs
from the Ambassador.

Powells of words " create a dangerous Praezendenzfall and mean a
support of the Besatzers and aggressor ", stressed the minister of
foreign affairs of the VAE. according to its opinion thereby the
confidence in relation to the USA politics in the Near East completely
would undermine.  Now become it clearly, which will pursue politics
the new administration under the direction of president George Bush.


The guidance of the Palestinian national autonomy condemned Powells
assertion likewise and did not stress that " none of the pages is
justified accumulates to change Jerusalems so long the negotiations to
this problem is final ".  " the holy Jerusalem is in accordance with
the resolutions of the UN security council a part by Israel 1967
filled of the areas, over its status negotiations is led ", is called
it in an assertion of the guidance of the autonomy.

Additionally the press secretary of the State Department of Iran
explained that a shifting of the USA message from Tel Aviv could
intensify the conflict in the Near East after Jerusalem radically.  It
called the moslemischen countries and the international organizations
to take effective measures in order to prevent the implementation of
this project of the USA administration.

Israel had explained Jerusalem as its capital, had not been recognized
completely the Annexion of the eastern Arab section of the city 1967
however by the international commonwealth of nations.  Many messages
are further in Tel Aviv.