Tillerson Says Kushner’s Mideast Peace Plan Is ‘Well Advanced’
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The Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan is “fairly well advanced,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday, as he sought to convince regional allies that the U.S. remains an honest broker despite recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
“It will be up to the president to decide when he feels it’s time and he’s ready to put that plan forward,” he said in Amman, Jordan of the long-anticipated proposal being worked out by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt. “I will say it’s fairly well advanced.”