Jerusalem: Paraguay will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by the end of May, a Paraguayan government spokesman and the Israeli foreign ministry said on Monday, following the United States and Guatemala.
The status of Jerusalem is one of the thorniest disputes between Israel, which says the city is its eternal and indivisible capital, and the Palestinians, who want the eastern part of the city as the capital of their own future state.
“Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes plans to come to Israel by the end of the month to open an embassy in Jerusalem,” Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said in a statement.
Read the article by Maayan Lubell in The Sydney Morning Herald.