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2023-08-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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More normalcy: Papua New Guinea to open Jerusalem embassy next week, Israeli official says
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 [IsraelTimes] Port Moresby expected to inaugurate mission in capital during visit by Prime Minister James Marape, amid wave of similar announcements
News of Papua New Guinea’s embassy opening comes on the heels of two similar announcements from other countries. On Friday, Sierra Leone said that it would open an embassy in Jerusalem.
Paraguay announced the week before that it would reopen its embassy in the Israeli capital too.
Currently, the US, Guatemala, Honduras and Kosovo have embassies in Jerusalem.
Israel sees the moves as strengthening its claim to the city as its capital, though most foreign countries situate their embassies in or near Tel Aviv.
Hungary and Fiji are expected to announce embassy moves in the coming months as well.
Papua New Guinea does not currently have an embassy in Israel, but does maintain a consulate near Tel Aviv. Israel’s relations with the island nation are handled by its embassy in Australia.
The two countries established ties in 1978.
Papua New Guinea is one of the Pacific nations that regularly vote with Israel at the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
, and Tkachenko told Cohen during their call that his country would continue to do so. In December, Papua New Guinea was one of the 25 countries that joined Israel in opposing the UN General Assembly resolution requesting that the International Court of Justice weigh in on the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
in 2018 it voted to condemn the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, while five other Pacific nations rejected the condemnation.
The island nation’s geopolitical importance is on the rise as China and the US jockey for influence in the country and neighboring states in the Pacific Ocean. US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
canceled a much-anticipated trip there in May, sending US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his stead. 
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