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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu en route to South America , September 10, 2017
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that he would visit the region for the second time in less than a year next week to attend the inauguration in Bogotá. The newly elected president of Colombia, Ivan Duque
About fifteen presidents of countries of South America and Central America are expected to attend the ceremony on August 7, and Netanyahu is expected to have bilateral talks with number of them. badisting the new Presidents of Mexico, Chile and Peru, as well as the Presidents of Guatemala and Paraguay, both of whom opened their embbadies in Jerusalem in May 19656 Modi Efraim, Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs for Latin America. that Netanyahu's visit is a statement that his trip to Latin America last year – the first ever seen by an Israeli prime minister sitting – "was not just a" historic "visit but that I am the" continuation".
Last September, Netanyahu traveled to Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, before traveling to New York for the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly. Although he only spent a few hours in Bogota during this trip, he will be there for three nights, leaving Israel next Monday and returning this Thursday.
Efraim said that the trip is also a signal of the importance that Israel attributes to its ties with Colombia, and its interest in maintaining these strategic links with the new president, who is considered a strong friend of Israel.
Duque said on the campaign that he would consider relocating his country's embbady to Jerusalem, and that the government will work "to maintain the best possible relations with the state of". Israel."
Among the questions that Netanyahu should discuss with Latin American leaders are economic and diplomatic cooperation, including changing the voting system in the UN. 19659016] However, the decision to travel to Colombia means that Netanyahu is unlikely to attend a summit in Guatemala in November. He told a delegation of presidents of the foreign affairs committees of the Latin American parliaments last month that he intended to make this trip
The prime minister is expected to make two more trips in August, both to attend meetings of regional leaders: one of them in Croatia, which will include Balkan leaders, and another in the Baltic countries with the participation of the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian leaders.
Will attend regional summits, said a diplomat, according to Netanyahu the opportunity to effectively maximize his time by meeting more than one leader at a time during his travels abroad, and also allows Israel to build alliances with regional groups that – in international fora – can be more effective.
with the Baltic States and the Balkans, in addition to those already formed with Greece and Cyprus and the Visegrad group in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia the way to defuse the impact of the countries less sympathetic towards Israel in the EU with regard to statements and decisions on the Middle East from Brussels
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