Russia expressed serious concern today over US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, saying the move threatened security in the region. <br/><br/>Moscow reiterated its long-held view that a solution to the dispute over Jerusalem's status should be negotiated through "direct Palestinian-Israeli talks". Mr Trump's defiant move ended seven decades of US ambiguity on the status of the city, which is claimed by both Israelis and Palestinians.<br/><br/>Moscow said earlier that it considered East Jerusalem to be the capital of a future Palestinian state, and the west of the city the capital of Israel. Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1967, and later annexed East Jerusalem in a move that has never been recognised by the international community.