An official announcement is expected after the president-elect is sworn in next week.
(August 9, 2023 / JNS) Paraguay will move its embassy back to Jerusalem, in a sign of growing support for Israel in Latin America, a Paraguayan senator said on Monday.
Sen. Gustavo Leite spoke a week before Paraguayan President-elect Santiago Peña, who has pledged to move the embassy back to Israel’s capital, will be sworn into office and a month before he is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
“The president-elect is a person of his word so you can count on it that it will be done,” Leite told JNS in a telephone interview from the Paraguayan capital of Asunción. “All the things are in place for the move.”
The president-elect told Netanyahu in a congratulatory phone call in May that he plans to return the South American country’s embassy to Jerusalem immediately after his August 15 inauguration.
NEWSRAEL: Many Latin American countries are worrying over the Iran/Hezbollah infiltration in the area and hope closer ties with Israel can help.
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