Published: 2 November 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Jerusalem embassy move 'could land Australia in the International Court of Justice' (SMH)
The Palestinian Authority has already filed a suit with the International Court of Justice against the United States after President Donald Trump shifted his country’s embassy to Jerusalem, whose territorial status remains unresolved in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has warned that relocating Australia's embassy in Israel would be met with a 'very negative reaction' in Indonesia.
Don Rothwell, a professor of international law at the Australian National University, told Fairfax Media that Australia could face a similar case as a signatory to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, on which the Palestinian case against the US rests.
Morrison brushes off Turnbull’s advice against moving Australia’s Israel embassy (Guardian)
Former PM says if embassy moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem there would be a ‘very negative reaction in Indonesia’
Photo: Jerusalem Western Wall (JTA)
