European Foreign Ministers have declared their support for the division of Jerusalem, saying that a way should be found to make Jerusalem the shared capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state. The meeting adopted a text stating that Jerusalem should provide the future capital of the two states, as part of a negotiated settlement. The Israeli government had denounced the Swedish proposal, calling it a dangerous threat to peace efforts and saying it would undermine the EU's role as a Middle East peace mediator. The document also called for the establishment of a Palestinian state comprising the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem. The EU foreign ministers dropped an earlier proposal by the Swedish EU presidency to explicitly support the idea of East Jerusalem as the eventual capital of Palestine.