Landing in the Venezuelan capital yesterday, Abbas met President Nicolas Maduro at the presidential palace Miraflores. He thanked him for rejecting the U.S. decision to recognize Al-Quds as Israel’s capital and the subsequent decision to relocate the American Embassy from Tel Aviv.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Latin American countries to refrain from moving their embassies in Israel to Al-Quds , as the United States, Paraguay and Guatemala will do this month.
“We hope that some countries in the Americas will not move their embassies to Jerusalem because it contradicts international legality,” Abbas said during a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, at the presidential palace in Miraflores.
Maduro acknowledged Maduro’s “repudiation” of Washington’s decision to recognize “Jerusalem(Al-Quds) as the capital of Israel and the transfer of its embassy.”
“We express our interest to maintain serious negotiations with Israel based on international legality (…). That Palestine be accepted as a full country of the United Nations, “he said.
