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August 17, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16206338.htm

Costa Rica to Move Israel Embassy Out of Jerusalem

[Reuters] Costa Rica will move its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, its new president, Oscar Arias, said on Wednesday, in a move that pleases Arab nations and is a blow to Israel. "It's time to rectify an historic error that hurts us internationally and deprives us of almost any form of friendship with the Arab world, and more broadly with Islamic civilization, to which a sixth of humanity belongs," Arias said. Former Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge moved the embassy to Jerusalem in 1982 as a show of support for Israel.

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