QUITO (Reuters) -The US has instructed different counties that recognition of a Palestinian state will trigger extra issues, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned on Thursday.
“We instructed all these international locations, we instructed all of them, we mentioned when you guys do that recognition stuff it is all pretend, it is not even actual, when you do it you are going to create issues,” Rubio mentioned from Quito, the place he met with President Daniel Noboa and his Ecuadorean counterpart.
“There’s going to be a response, it should make it tougher to get a ceasefire and it might even set off theses types of actions that you have seen, or not less than these makes an attempt at these actions,” Rubio mentioned, including he wouldn’t opine on Israeli dialogue of annexation of the West Financial institution however that it was not closing.
(Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis and Julia Symmes Cobb)