Bolsonaro: Brazil to Move Embassy to Jerusalem

(AFP) Jordi Miro - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has confirmed he will move his country's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and said the main nation objecting to that is Iran, not Arab countries. Bolsonaro told SBT TV on Thursday: "The decision is taken, it's only a matter of when it will be implemented." "A large part of the Arab world is aligned or aligning itself with the United States. The Palestinian issue is already overloading people in the Arab world for the most part." Bolsonaro said he did not think that most Arab countries would take reprisals against Brazil.


2019-01-07 00:00:00

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