Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosts visiting Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in his office ahead of the leaders’ participation in a ceremony opening Fiji’s new embassy in Jerusalem later today, the Prime Minister’s Office says in a statement.
Netanyahu thanks his Fijian counterpart “for his support and steadfast standing alongside Israel, and spoke with him about regional political and security issues,” the PMO says.
Rabuka, who is also foreign minister, in turn invites Netanyahu to visit the South Pacific archipelago, the statement adds.
Rabuka came to power in late 2022 as the head of a three-party government that includes the right-wing Christian Sodelpa party, one of whose leaders’ demands was that Fiji open an embassy in Jerusalem.
Fiji’s embassy move follows a decades-long campaign by the Jerusalem-based International Christian Embassy of Jerusalem, which preaches support for Israel at churches across the Southern Pacific.
Currently, six countries have embassies in Jerusalem — the US, Guatemala, Honduras, Kosovo, Papua New Guinea and Paraguay.
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