http://www.english.hadhramaut.info US says moving embassy to Jerusalem has "inflammatory effect" [The Source: washington/hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 29/03/2010] The United States affirmed on Monday that moving its embassy to Jerusalem would have "an inflammatory effect" and complicate US role in the Middle East peace process, according to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA). Since the passage of the Jerusalem Embassy Act in 1995, successive administrations, both Republican and Democrat, have utilized the waiver authority within the legislation to protect critical US national security interests, most crucially to preserve our ability to work with the parties and the key states in the region to realize a comprehensive peace in the Middle East, including a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," said Assistant Secretary of State for public diplomacy Philip Crowley in a press briefing."They recognized then, as we do now, that moving the embassy would have an inflammatory and destabilizing effect, and complicate our ability to play a helpful role in meeting these goals," he added.Crowley noted that the United States "will continue to push both sides on that aspect of confidence-building and taking the kind of steps that we think create the atmosphere for proximity talks to ultimately lead to direct negotiations." He affirmed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not had any discussions with any Israeli officials since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Washington last week."We obviously had a number of detailed conversations last week, we are hopeful that we can push this process forward after taking a break for the holiday period in the region," said Crowley."As to how we and the Israelis and the Palestinians continue to view this, we will be in touch with them soon after the holiday, and we will see where they are," he added.Crowley noted that the United States want to get this process moving forward saying that "while we thought that the discussions here last week made progress, I think we still think there is work to be done." "We hope that the parties will repeat to us in the near future what they have said to us in the recent past, which is they are ready to move forward with these proximity talks," he concluded.