Paraguay will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by the end of May a Paraguay government spokesman and the Israeli foreign ministry said on Monday.
“Paraguay 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.
A Paraguay government spokesman said Cartes was scheduling a trip to Israel to move the embassy on May 21 or May 22.
The announcement comes one week before the United States embassy opens in Jerusalem on May 14 in accordance with President Donald Trump’s Dec. 6 recognition of the occupied city as Israel’s capital.
