While U.S. President-elect Donald Trump considers relocating the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as a “very big priority,” a move that would clearly represent a major reversal of longstanding U.S. policy, France’s new ambasador in Israel Helene Le Gal said emphatically that her country had no intention to follow such a move.

Speaking to Galei Tsahal, Israel’s Army Radio, she said such a move could only happen after a peace agreement with the Palestinians was concluded.

Le Gal, who has replaced ambassador Patrick Maisonnave who has held the position since 2013, had spent three years at the embassy in Tel Aviv in the 1990s as a young diplomat.

Most countries, including the U.S., have their embassies in Tel Aviv but many, including the U.S., have consulates there.

The U.S. Congress has bristled at the executive branch’s refusal to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital and in 1995 passed legislation requiring that the U.S. embassy be relocated there in the Jerusalem Embassy act.

But this legislation allows the president to waive that order for six month periods for national security reasons, which presidents from both the Republican and Democratic parties have consistently done since the law took effect.

During his election campaign Donald Trump pledged repeatedly to move the embassy. However, former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush made similar pledges as candidates that went unfulfilled.

“Every other candidate made the promise but did not act on it because of being told it would inflame opinion throughout the Arab world and potentially trigger violent demonstrations against our embassies,” said Dennis Ross, from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who advised several presidents on the Middle East.

It’s unclear exactly where Trump would move the U.S. embassy, but its location could make a difference. According to Ross, moving the embassy to West Jerusalem shouldn’t affect the eventual “final status” of the city because few question whether that area of the city would be part of Israel in any final settlement of the decades-old conflict.