Brazil said that "for now, he does not think" to relocate the embassy in Jerusalem

The acting president of Brazil, General Hamilton Mourao said Monday to the ambbadador of Palestine in Brasilia that "for the moment", the government is not planning to move the Brazilian embbady in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

"The answer I gave them is a response from the state, is not it? The Brazilian state, for the moment, is not planning any embbady transfer. " Mourao told reporters after meeting with Ibrahim Alzeben, head of the Palestinian representation in Brazil since 2008.

MouraoVice President of Brazil, exercises the presidency since the morning of this Monday for a duration of 48 hours, during the abdominal surgery to which he was subjected in the morning, the agent Jair Bolsonaro and the "strict rest" that followed.

This statement is another example of the contradictory messages that the Bolsonaro government is sending on this issue.

In November, shortly after winning the elections, Bolsonaro has announced plans to follow in the footsteps of US President Donald Trump and to move the embbady to Jerusalem.

But after objections had been raised between his own allies and the meat exporters in the Arab countries, he baderted that "It's not decided yet."

However, after the visit of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Brazil on the occasion of the inauguration of Bolsonaro on January 1, the Brazilian president said that "the decision is made" and "just decide when it will be implemented".

The meeting between the two leaders has sealed a "new alliance" between the two countries, Netanyahu's first show had been sending by Netanyahu a plane with military rescue experts and high-tech equipment to help search for survivors of the mining disaster unleashed Friday in the south-east. from Brazil.

Israel views the entire city of Jerusalem as its indivisible capitalwhile the Palestinians hope that East Jerusalem will become the capital of their future state.

For the international community,The status of the holy city must be negotiated between the two partiesand embbadies do not have to settle there until an agreement has been reached.

Until now, Brazil, where Jewish and Arab communities coexist, has maintained this position.

(With information from AFP)