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Netanyahu thanks Guatemalan president for embassy move

16 May 2018, 2:21 pm Edit

Meeting with Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanks him for being the second to open an embassy in Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his wife Sara, Guatemala President Jimmy Morales (2R) and Guatemalan Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel (L) pose for a picture at the official opening ceremony of the Guatemala embassy in Jerusalem on May 16, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

“Guatemala was with us at the start, and Guatemala is with us today,” Netanyahu says, referring to the country being the first to open an embassy in Jerusalem in 1959, before moving it to Tel Aviv in 1980.

Morales calls the opening the start of “a new era” in ties between the countries and expresses hopes for stronger bilateral relations.

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