News - Yemen: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed Australia's decision to cancel its recognition of west Al-Quds as the capital of the Zionist entity.

According to its statement, the Yemeni Foreign Ministry affirmed that this step is consistent with the inalienable Palestinian right, calling on the countries that recognized Al-Quds as the capital of the Zionist enemy entity, to follow Australia.

The statement reiterated that Yemen stands by the brotherly Palestinian people in their just and legitimate struggles until the liberation of Palestine and the end of occupation, and establishing an independent Palestinian state on all of Palestine.

The Australian government says it has reversed a previous controversial decision taken by its conservative predecessor to recognize the western part of the occupied city of al-Quds as the Israeli regime's so-called capital.

During a media briefing on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the government "recommits Australia to international efforts

in the responsible pursuit of progress towards a just and enduring ... solution" to the issue of Palestine.

She added that the status of al-Quds should be decided through talks between Israelis and Palestinians, and not through unilateral decisions.

The Israeli regime occupied the western part of the city during a heavily-Western-backed war in 1948. It also occupied the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, including East al-Quds, in a another war in 1967.

Ever since, the apartheid regime has dotted the territory with hundreds of illegal settlements that have come to house hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers.

Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent state with East al-Quds as its capital. The Israeli regime, however, lays claim to the entire city as its so-called capital.