CAIRO (Sputnik) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a phone call congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election and expressed readiness to work jointly to achieve a just peace in the Middle East, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
According to the report, Trump in turn reaffirmed that he will act to stop the conflict in the Middle East and is ready to work together with Abbas and all parties involved in the region and on the international stage to achieve regional peace.
The Electoral College, the group of presidential electors from the states, will vote for the candidate whom each state’s voters have chosen on December 17, and the results will be approved by Congress on January 6. The presidential inauguration will take place on January 20.
Trump became the first US president since the 19th century to be elected to nonconsecutive terms.
