JERUSALEM / TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras hopes to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv until the end of 2020, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, a move that is likely to infuriate the Palestinians.
“To our strategic alliance, we have held talks to organize the opening of embassies in Tegucigalpa and Jerusalem, respectively,” Hernandez wrote on Twitter. “We hope to succeed in this historic milestone before the end of the year, as long as the pandemic allows. “
The Central American country has noted in the afterlife that it will possibly move its embassy to Jerusalem. Netanyahu said the goal is to open and open his embassies before the end of the year. Israel has not had an embassy in Honduras lately but opened a diplomatic workplace. there last month.
Only two countries, the United States and Guatemala, have already opened embassies in Jerusalem. The Honduran statement follows the announcements through US President Donald Trump and Netanyahu this month that Kosovo and Serbia would open embassies in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem has been one of the thorniest problems in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Palestinians need East Jerusalem, captured through Israel in the 1967 Middle East War, to be the capital of a long-term state.
Israel considers the entire city, the eastern sector it annexed after the 1967 war, as its capital.
On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements in Washington to identify formal relations with Israel, a resolution forged in component through Iran’s unusual fears, but which can further isolate the Palestinians.
Trump organized the rite in the White House, culminating in a month when the United Arab Emirates and then Bahrain agreed opposing decades of w without a solution to Israel’s dispute with the Palestinians.
(Information through Maayan Lubell and Gustavo Palencia; Additional information through Frank Jack Daniel; Writing through Stefanie Eschenbacher; Edited through Peter Cooney)
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