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Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Netanyahu to Latin America states: Move your embassies to Jerusalem
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with the heads of parliamentary foreign affairs committees from Latin American states, calling on them to urge their governments to move their embassies in Israel to Jerusalem.
“I’m very glad that Guatemala has moved its embassy. I’m very glad that Paraguay has moved its embassy,” says Netanyahu. “And I ask you, as well as being Israel’s ambassadors, to ask your governments to move their embassies to Jerusalem. So we can say, ‘Next year in Jerusalem’”
He also says he hopes to travel to Guatemala later this year for a meeting of regional leaders. Netanyahu became the first Israeli prime minister to visit Latin America when he traveled to Argentina, Colombia and Mexico in September.
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