AlJazeera.Net (Qatar) : "Netanyahu adamant on Jerusalem"

Netanyahu adamant on Jerusalem

Netanyahu also held talks on Iran's nuclear programme in London [AFP]

Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has said that his government is unwilling to negotiate on the status of Jerusalem as a joint Israel-Palestinian capital.

When speaking in London at a meeting with Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, on Tuesday, Netanyahu also said that any peace talks with the Palestinians would have to cover the issue of a "demilitarised Palestine", as well as illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

"I've made it clear ... that Jerusalem is a sovereign capital of Israel and we accept no limitations on our sovereignty," Netanyahu said at a news conference in the British capital.

"To put a fine point on it, Jerusalem is not a settlement."

However, he added: "The settlement issue is outstanding. It has to be one of the issues resolved in the negotiations, alongside Palestinian recognition of the Jewish state, effective demilitarisation, for any future peace agreement."

The Palestinians want occupied East Jerusalem as their future state capital.

'Increasingly confident'

Brown said that he was "increasingly confident" of progress on Middle East peace after talks with Netanyahu, whom he.........................
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