| i. | ^ The award for Jerusalem was presented to "Palestine"[23] butIsrael controls all of Jerusalem, includingEast Jerusalem (captured in theSix-Day War in 1967 and designated as a part of theIsraeli-occupied territories), and unilaterally designated the whole of the city as its own indivisible capital, and has enacted theJerusalem Law to that effect in a move denounced by the UN Security Council. Jerusalem was unilaterally designated as the capital of theState of Palestine (Arabic:دولة فلسطين,romanized: Dawlat Filastin), officially simply Palestine, by thePalestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1988, and again by thePalestinian Legislative Council in May 2002.[24] Palestine is a member of theArab League and then Secretary-GeneralAmr Moussa supported the Arab ministers' decision that Jerusalem be designated the Arab Capital of Culture for 2009. The city's final status awaits the outcome of future negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (see"Negotiating Jerusalem", University of Maryland andPositions on Jerusalem for more information). In the context of the Arab Capital of Culture, the organising committee is Palestinian and the Israeli authorities have discouraged the holding of events in Jerusalem itself. |
