Bolsonaro, determined to move the Brazilian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

The elected President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, reaffirmed Thursday his election promise to relocate. embbady of his country in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, on the path inaugurated by the United States.

"As we stated during the campaign, we intend to transfer the Brazilian Embbady from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israel is a sovereign state and we respect it" , tweeted Bolsonaro, party of the far right, who will take office on 1 January.

At a press conference at his home in Rio de Janeiro, Bolsonaro said: "We respect Israeli people and Arab people, we do not want to create problems with anyone, we want to trade with the whole world, look for peaceful ways to solve problems. "

According to Brazilian media, the move of the embbady could cause sales outlets in Arab countries, important markets for Brazilian meat.

Asked about this in an interview published Thursday by the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom, Bolsonaro replied, "When they asked me, during the campaign, if I would do it when Mr. President, I'd like to do it. replied "Yes, it is you who decide what is the capital of Israel, and not the other nations" ".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the decision "historical." "I congratulate my friend, President-elect of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, for his intention to move the Brazilian embbady to Jerusalem, a historic, just and exciting milestone," he said in a statement.

Netanyahu will most likely attend the ceremony. Assumption of Bolsonaro in Brasilia, told AFP a source of the Israeli government.

The Hebrew state considers Jerusalem as its capital, while the Palestinians aspire for East Jerusalem to become the capital of their future state.

For the international community, the status of the holy city. it must be negotiated between the two parties, and the embbadies must not settle there before an agreement is reached.

– On the Road to the United States –

US President Donald Trump intervened December 2017 with decades of diplomacy recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Since then, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has ended all his relations with the Trump government.

After the United States, his embbady in Guatemala and Paraguay moved, although the latter country sent his delegation back to Tel Aviv a few weeks earlier. 19659005] Israel occupies militarily since 1967 the West Bank, Palestinian territory, like East Jerusalem, the Palestinian part of the annexed holy city. This annexation has never been recognized by the international community.

Brazil recognized Palestine as a state in 2010, under the presidency of the leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. But already in 1975, during the military dictatorship, he recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as a national liberation movement, recalls the portal of the Foreign Ministry of Brazil. In 1993, he authorized the opening of a special Palestinian delegation in Brasilia and, in 1998, he badimilated his status to that of an embbady.

Important Jewish and Arab communities live in Brazil.