Cairo – Arab League Severs Ties With Guatemala Over Embassy Move

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    FILE - Hilda Patricia Marroquin, the wife of Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, cuts the ribbon during the dedication ceremony of the embassy of Guatemala in Jerusalem, as she stands with Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, and Guatemalan Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel Polanco, May 16, 2018. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/Pool Cairo – The Arab League says it will no longer cooperate on any level with Guatemala because of the country’s decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

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    The Cairo-based organization says Wednesday it has abandoned a memorandum of understanding signed in 2013 and has severed relations with the South American country.

    Guatemala moved its embassy to Jerusalem earlier this month, following the inauguration of the U.S. Embassy in disputed Jerusalem.

    Guatemala was the first country to put its embassy in Jerusalem, in 1956. It moved the facility 24 years later to Tel Aviv, after the Israeli parliament declared Jerusalem its eternal and indivisible capital in contravention of a United Nations resolution.

    Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.


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    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    5 years ago

    More great news

    5 years ago

    Big shots. Why haven’t they cut ties with U.S.? Pick on the little guy.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    5 years ago

    What do you think the Israeli (or the Syrian) ambassador to Guatemala does most days? I am supposing tennis.