Panama’s president Juan Carlos Varela has refused to move his country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Occupied Jerusalem.
According to Israel Hayom newspaper on Monday Varela said during his visit to Tel Aviv last week that Panama supports the political negotiations and hopes that there will be a dialogue on the two-state solution.
Varela affirmed “We will stay in Tel Aviv but we will wait and see what other countries will do. At the same time we will support the negotiations between Israel and Palestine.”
He said as quoted by the Hebrew newspaper “Every country has the right to decide where its embassy will be located” adding that his country prefers to wait and leave a room for negotiations.
Paraguay on Monday opened its embassy in Occupied Jerusalem to become the third country to take this step following the US and Guatemala.
US president Donald Trump in December 2017 recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and announced his plan to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city. On 14th May the US embassy in Jerusalem was officially opened.
