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U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by dre11(m): 11:28am On May 13, 2018
The U.S. Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem will be dedicated on Monday, May 14, 2018, the Department of State has announced.

The Office of the Spokesperson for the Department said it was proud to announce the dedication adding Amb. David Friedman would preside over the dedication ceremony.

It added that Deputy Secretary John Sullivan would lead the Presidential Delegation to the historic opening along with Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin.

Other members of the presidential delegation are Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, Adviser Ivanka Trump, and Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt.
“As the President stated on December 6, 2017, the historic opening of our embassy recognizes the reality that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and the seat of its government.

“Seventy years ago, the United States, under President Harry S. Truman, became the first nation to recognize the State of Israel.

“Moving our Embassy is not a departure from our strong commitment to facilitate a lasting peace deal; rather it is a necessary condition for it.

“We are not taking a position on final status issues, including the specific boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem, nor on the resolution of contested borders,” the department said.

It added that Consulate General Jerusalem would continue to operate as an independent mission with an unchanged mandate responsible for U.S. relations with the Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority.

The department said: “The United States continues to support the status quo with regard to the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount.

“The Administration is firmly committed to pursuing a lasting and comprehensive peace between Israel and the Palestinians that promises a brighter future for both”.

While in Jerusalem as the Head of Delegation, Sullivan would also meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Hotovely, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General Yuval Rotem, and members of both U.S. Embassy and Consulate General staff.

The Department would livestream the Dedication Ceremony on www.state.gov and Facebook.com/usdos, it said. (NAN)


http://thenationonlineng.net/u-s-embassy-in-jerusalem-opens-monday/

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by madridguy(m): 11:29am On May 13, 2018
Welcome development.

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by biacan(f): 11:41am On May 13, 2018
Finally the good news is here kiss

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by CROWNWEALTH019(m): 11:45am On May 13, 2018
The God of the Jews is still alive


The prophesy is being fulfilled in my lifetime

I know islamists won't like this, but God of the Jewish is still alive

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by JasonScoolari: 11:48am On May 13, 2018
Many thanks to Donald Trump.


"If it rains in Israel, it will pour in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and other "PEACEFUL" religious countries"

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by hisgrace090: 12:00pm On May 13, 2018
May the good God who raise Donald Trump to deliver Israel always raise someone who will be of help to us, amen!

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by ISLAMBAD: 12:02pm On May 13, 2018
Headslammers will cry out blood today .

Matthew 24:35.. It says ..Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will never pass.

Indeed, the word of God has been fulfilled despite all the forces of darkness against it.

May Almighty God bless Donald Trump for a job well done for he's a God's sent. God just used him as a tool to fulfill his words.

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by Johnnyessence(m): 12:43pm On May 13, 2018
nice one from Donald Trump, he keep to his promise.

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by MANNABBQGRILLS: 4:09pm On May 13, 2018
A good development this is.....

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by Ihavesuccess: 4:09pm On May 13, 2018
DEMOCRACY only works when it favours USA.

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by Moghalu4Pres: 4:10pm On May 13, 2018
So Trump insisted on his move?

Vote Prof Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Nigeria's best option. Former deputy CBN Gov; former UN chief.

Read his profile:

Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu was born in Lagos in 1963 as the first of five children of his parents. Nnewi, the famous commercial town in Anambra State, is his hometown. His late father Isaac Moghalu, a retired Permanent Secretary, was a Nigerian Foreign Service Officer in the 1960s. Kingsley and his parents lived first at Webb Road in Ikoyi, Lagos and later in Geneva, Switzerland and Washington DC, USA in his early years. His mother, Lady Vidah Moghalu, a retired dietician, is now a Christian evangelist. Kingsley’s Igbo name Chiedu literally means “the Lord is my shepherd” or “led by the Spirit of God”. Little-known, he also has a Yoruba name, Ayodele, given to him by the late Mrs. Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti who was a friend of his parents in the early sixties.


After secondary school education at Government College, Umuahia and Federal Government College, Enugu, Kingsley graduated in law from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) assignment as a Legal Officer in Shell Petroleum’s headquarters in Lagos followed. He then worked in the late 1980s as the General Counsel of the now-defunct Newswatch magazine, the leading light of the Nigerian media at the time. But his sights were set firmly on the global stage. To further burnish his CV, he moonlighted as a special correspondent for prestigious foreign newspapers including South magazine in London, Christian Science Monitor in Boston, and Africa News Service in North Carolina (now the Washington DC-based AllAfrica Global Media) in the United States.

Kingsley was admitted to the M.A. programme at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1990. With a letter of recommendation from Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, a former Foreign Affairs Minister of Nigeria and an alumnus of the renowned institution, The Fletcher School awarded Moghalu the Joan Gillespie Fellowship for future leaders from developing countries. The young man with the determination of a long-distance runner turned down an opportunity to become the company secretary of one of several new-generation banks sprouting in Lagos at the time and left Nigeria for Boston.

Kingsley Moghalu graduated with an M.A. in International Relations in 1992 and was appointed into the international civil service of the United Nations as an entry level officer on his individual merit. He worked in strategic planning, legal affairs and executive management roles in Cambodia, New York, Croatia, Tanzania, and Switzerland. A man who admits to having “workaholic tendencies”, he studied part-time and obtained a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Political Science while working as a senior UN officer assigned to The Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland. Shuttling between Geneva and London, and in between frequent international official missions to various countries, he completed his 500-page doctoral dissertation in 12 months, shattering previous records at the University of London. As if a Ph.D was not nearly enough, he studied further at the UK Institute of Risk Management in London and became a professionally certified risk management professional.


Hard work and professional competence brought recognition. By 2006, aged 43, Kingsley Moghalu had attained the highest career rank of Director in the UN system, and served for six months in New York (at the rank of Under-Secretary-General) as a member of a high-level panel appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to revamp the accountability, regulatory and internal dispute resolution system for the 60,000 global UN workforce and management. His interests now began to shift to the private sector. In December 2008 Kingsley resigned from the UN system, deployed 100,000 Swiss Francs of his personal savings as capital and established Sogato Strategies S.A., a risk management and global strategy consultancy in Geneva. This calculated risk later paid off in unexpected ways.

Sogato Strategies soon acquired impressive clients like the Swiss bank UBS and Syngenta, the Swiss agrochemicals multinational. Life in the private sector was looking up. But an encounter with Sanusi Lamido Sanusi at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town, South Africa in mid-2009 changed Moghalu’s trajectory. Sanusi had just been appointed Governor of the CBN. He was looking for a deputy governor to help him execute an ambitious agenda of banking sector reform after the global financial crisis. The governor was on the lookout for an executive with credibility, international exposure, and knowledge of risk management. Kingsley fit the bill. Sanusi persuaded him to return home to Nigeria as a deputy governor of the central bank and recommended him to President Umaru Yar’Adua, who appointed Kingsley to the coveted position. By November 2009, after his confirmation by the Senate, the new Deputy Governor was at his desk at the CBN heading the reserve bank’s Financial System Stability (FSS) Directorate.

He left the CBN in November 2014 after completing his term of office. Does he have any regrets? “No, not at all”, he replied. Does he miss the central bank? “I gave my best in service at the Bank. But, in hindsight, it was best that I moved on to other things when I did”. A man with a strong global pedigree, just weeks after he left the CBN he was appointed a professor at Tufts University and a member of the Advisory Council of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) in London, UK. In addition to his academic duties in Boston, the professor’s schedule is packed with public speaking engagements around the world and consulting assignments. He has advised the investment bank Goldman Sachs, and global private equity and asset management firms such as Actis, TPG and Eaton Vance.

Devoted family man

Kingsley is a devoted family man. In 1994, while living in New York City and working in the UN’s headquarters, he married the then Miss Maryanne Ezike, a banker, lawyer and a daughter of the late medical doctor and former Permanent Secretary, Dr. Christopher Ezike. Kingsley and Maryanne Moghalu have four children. A short while after we left his classroom at Tufts University, Prof. Moghalu and I had a memorable encounter with Hillary Clinton, the former United States Democratic Party presidential candidate, at a dinner event at Henrietta’s Table restaurant in The Charles Hotel at Harvard Square in Cambridge. In conversation as we took selfies with the famous American politician who lost her bid to become her country’s first woman President, it turned out that she has read the professor’s Emerging Africa, and she told me that I have a bright future.

I tweeted pictures of my encounter with Prof. Moghalu at Tufts University and it drew many positive responses. As in America and around the world, the ex-CBN Deputy Governor is well- regarded at home in Nigeria. One typical response from one of my tweeter followers, @ibsanusi read: “Kingsley Moghalu…one of the best brains of Nigeria. Unfortunately, we don’t know how to maximize our best hands.” As we left Henrietta’s Table after our time with Mrs. Clinton, the global professor inspired me as we parted. “Our country belongs to us all. We have a duty to make it better for our children and our youth”, he told me. Nigeria has not heard the last of one of its most accomplished sons.

Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji was a 2017 Edward Mason Fellow and MPA graduate of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by emeijeh(m): 4:10pm On May 13, 2018
Courtesy my man of the year!

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by Pavore9: 4:10pm On May 13, 2018
Donald Trump no dey mince words.

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by EmmyDJourno: 4:11pm On May 13, 2018
And the World changes forever kiss

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by KidsNEXTdoor: 4:11pm On May 13, 2018
Trump was really sent by God..



God bless America

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by maestrojohn(m): 4:11pm On May 13, 2018
Do You Know What I Like About Trump? What He Said He Will Do Is What He Is Doing, Unlike What We Have Here..

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by wristbangle: 4:11pm On May 13, 2018
Welcome development.

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by Daviddson(m): 4:12pm On May 13, 2018
A talk-and-do president, unlike who we have here in Nigeria who cannot take even very minor decisions on time. Who we thought was going to be a Jackie Chan cum Jack Bauer, but became a puppet of his own government. (No insults intended.)

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by SamuelAnyawu(m): 4:12pm On May 13, 2018
grin

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by kolawoleibukun2: 4:12pm On May 13, 2018
hurrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay (dancing) Musleem have to intensify their prayers becos is game over ni. Trump don show. the rapist of musleems. trump got no chill and he no send. US wants jerusalem as the capital of Israel which is what it truly is. the US is the world power and the US just said so.

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by somto10: 4:13pm On May 13, 2018
I jus luv trump... make dem borrow us d man for jus 6 months

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by KidsNEXTdoor: 4:13pm On May 13, 2018
hisgrace090:
May the good God who raise Donald Trump to deliver Israel always raise someone who will be of help to us, amen!

Any country that voted in an Islamic terrorist into office... Is clearly doomed.. Their is no hope for Nigeria

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by Nobody: 4:14pm On May 13, 2018
This is why I will never allow any squatters for my house, even if he go die outside make him die, instead of allowing him to come & kill my descendants at a later date claiming the house belongs to him

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by Nobody: 4:14pm On May 13, 2018
Terrorists will not like this.

Igwe Donald Trump, carry on.

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by KidsNEXTdoor: 4:15pm On May 13, 2018
somto10:
I jus luv trump...
make dem borrow us d man
for jus 6 months


All terrorists go park comot
Back to Niger Republic where they are from

They are here forming Willy Willy because of Niger delta oil money... God pass them

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by Nobody: 4:15pm On May 13, 2018
Trump is a dictator, out of 128 countries is only 8 that supported Trump resolution

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by Nobody: 4:17pm On May 13, 2018
fakeprophet:
Trump is a dictator, out of 128 countries is only 8 that supported Trump resolution
free yourself from mental slavery

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by herkeem: 4:19pm On May 13, 2018
Jhjjj
Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by BrownRoofRep: 4:19pm On May 13, 2018
Trump is the best thing to ever happen to America.
Where are those brainless empty chest beaters? Go and attack America and be wiped out from the face of the earth.

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Re: U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Opens Monday by amliftedhigher: 4:19pm On May 13, 2018
Am beginning to love America because of Trump , I wish he will also ban gay marriage in America and the world.

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