U.S. President, Joe Biden, will leave the country’s embassy in Jerusalem thus recognising the holy city as the capital of Israel.
Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, disclosed this in an interview with CNN.
Blinken spoke a few days after the Senate voted 97-3 in favour of a congressional budget amendment that retained the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
The plan to keep the embassy in Jerusalem is in line with the campaign promise of the new president not to move it back to Tel Aviv.
Biden was inaugurated on January 20 following his victory in the November 3, 2020 presidential election.
The past administration of President Donald Trump on December 6, 2017 recognised Jerusalem as Israeli capital and moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city.
The Senate voted 90-0 to move the embassy.
But at the opening of the new location in 2018, no Democrat attended the event.
Mr Trump is a Republican while Mr Biden is a Democrat.
The move was commended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the Republican had made “the alliance between America and Israel stronger than ever.”
Former President Barack Obama under who Biden served as president warned Mr Trump not to move the embassy, saying it would be “explosive.”
