Senior official: PM hopes that Honduras will announce embassy move in next 2 months

2 January 2019, 2:11 pm

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After meeting with Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes that Tegucigalpa will move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in the next two months, a senior official says.

Israel will in turn open an embassy in Tegucigalpa, the official says. There currently exists only a consulate in Honduras.

Honduras has asked Israel to assist it in developing its relations with the US and therefore, a three-way meeting was held between Pompeo, Netanyahu and Hernandez in Brasilia.

“Israel wants to help South American countries solve some of their problems in the fields of water as well as the economic and security sectors, and the US has an interest in that cause as well,” the official says.