Arab League secretary-general urges Guatemala to cancel embassy move

The Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit urged Guatemala to cancel a decision to pierce a embassy to Jerusalem on Thursday, according to a central Palestinian Authority news site Wafa.

In an obligatory minute to Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, Aboul-Gheit voiced his restlessness with a president’s preference to immigrate a embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Spokesman for a Secretary-General Mahmoud Afifi pronounced in a statement.

Guatemala was one of a handful of countries that corroborated a UN opinion on US President Donald Trump’s Dec 6 approval of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Last Sunday, President Morales reliable during AIPAC that a embassy would pierce to Jerusalem dual days after a United States, in mid-May and Palestinians were fuming as a Guatemalan envoy Sara Castaneda toured Jerusalem on Monday, looking during properties for a destiny embassy.

The standing of Jerusalem is one of a biggest obstacles to any assent understanding between Israel and a Palestinians, who wish easterly Jerusalem as their capital.

The Arab League had approaching that Guatemala would find to value their political, mercantile and informative shared team-work and defend general law and justice, Spokesman Afifi pronounced in his Thursday statement.

However, he emphasized that a Arabs were peaceful to say accessible family with Guatemala and equivocate any actions that could mistreat such family in a future.

Reuters contributed to this report.