The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry says it intends to recall its top diplomat in Brasilia over Brazil’s announcement that it will open a new trade office in Jerusalem.
“We will be communicating with our ambassador in Brazil in order to recall him for consultations and in order to take the appropriate decisions to confront such a situation,” the PA Foreign Ministry says in a statement.
The new Brazilian office in Jerusalem will “promote trade, investment, technology and innovation as a part of its embassy in Israel,” the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday, according to Reuters.
The PA Foreign Ministry adds that it considers Brazil opening a new office in Jerusalem “a brazen violation of international legitimacy and resolutions, direct aggression against our people and its rights and an affirmative response to Israeli-American pressure aimed at reinforcing the occupation, settlement building and the Judaization of occupied Jerusalem.”
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