Jerusalem today is claimed by both the Palestinians and the Israelis as their capital.

May 1999 is the deadline for an agreement over Jerusalem, a city that both parties claim as their capital and which neither wants to share.

Israel captured the eastern part of Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 war and claims the entire city as its capital.

While the council was based in Benghazi, it claimed Tripoli as its capital.

The issue reflects the relentless battle over Jerusalem, which both Israel and the Palestinians claim as their capital.

Both sides claim it, or parts of it, as their capital.

It initially claimed Baqubah as its capital.

Critics have called the policy a "quiet deportation" of Arabs from the city that Israel claims as its capital.

It was their first meeting in Jerusalem, which both sides claim as their capital.

Although the move has never been recognized internationally, Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its capital.