{"id":34016,"date":"2019-03-04T06:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T06:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34016"},"modified":"2019-03-04T06:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T06:22:44","slug":"us-consulate-in-jerusalem-will-merge-with-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34016","title":{"rendered":"US Consulate in Jerusalem will merge with embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The State Department on Sunday publicly confirmed that the US Consulate General in Jerusalem would merge with the US Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We will continue to conduct all of the diplomatic and consular functions previously performed by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem. We will also engage in a wide range of reporting, outreach, and programming in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as with Palestinians in Jerusalem, through a U.S. Embassy Palestinian Affairs Unit (PAU), which will operate from our historic Agron Road location in Jerusalem,&#8221; State Department deputy spokesperson Robert Palladino said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The State Department announced in October 2018 that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/18\/politics\/jerusalem-consulate-embassy\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">would fold the consulate<\/a> &#8212; which provided diplomatic representation to the Palestinians &#8212; with the US Embassy in Jerusalem, creating &#8220;a single diplomatic mission.&#8221; The decision was condemned by Palestinian officials.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The State Department on Sunday publicly confirmed that the US Consulate General in Jerusalem would merge with the US Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday.&#8221;We will continue to conduct all of the diplomatic and consular functions previously performed by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem. We will also engage in a wide range of reporting, outreach, and programming in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}