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Last Embassy Moved From Jerusalem

Posted by Jeff (Guest) - Monday, September 4 2006, 19:24:34 (CEST) from 69.14.30.71 - d14-69-71-30.try.wideopenwest.com Commercial - Windows XP - Mozilla Website: Website title:

(09/01/2006) Last Embassy Moved From Jerusalem (JTA) — El Salvador will move its embassy in Israel to Tel Aviv, a diplomatic setback that leaves Israel’s capital without any embassies. El Salvador’s government said the move was aimed at helping the Middle East peace process and offered “recognition of the right of a Palestinian state to exist.” The move comes 10 days after Costa Rica, the only other country that kept an embassy in Jerusalem, announced it was moving it to Tel Aviv. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias said the move was an attempt to “rectify a historic error.” Both countries had maintained embassies in west Jerusalem since the early 1980s. El Salvador’s president, Antonio Saca, is of Palestinian descent. His right-wing ARENA party moved the embassy to Jerusalem in 1984, after Israel supported the country’s armed forces despite international scorn for El Salvador’s poor human rights record during a bloody civil war with the leftist FMLN guerrillas. In 2004, shortly before his election, Saca was a major contributor to construction of a “Palestine Plaza” in San Salvador. The plaza, which honors the “victims” of Israeli independence in 1948, lists Saca’s name on a plaque identifying major donors. Saca’s move came as no surprise to Israeli officials in the region. It long had been expected that if Arias, the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize winner, moved Costa Rica’s embassy — as he promised early in his presidential campaign — Saca would follow suit. --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

The full topic: Last Embassy Moved From Jerusalem Jeff - Monday, September 4 2006, 19:24:34 (CEST) Re: Last Embassy Moved From Jerusalem pancho - 09/05 00:15

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