The Times of Israel reports: Paraguay is set to become the third country, after the US and Guatemala, to transfer its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israel said Monday.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon said Paraguay President Horacio Cartes will travel to Israel later this month to open the country’s new embassy in the capital.
Cartes’s trip was scheduled for May 21 or May 22, a Paraguay government spokesman told the Reuters news agency. Nahshon hailed the “wonderful news as the international recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital gathers momentum.”
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