Colombia opens an embassy in Ramallah

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Morio announced that The president of this country, Gustavo Petro, has ordered the reopening of the embassy in Ramallah (the capital of the Palestinian Authority).

Colombia recognized the independent state of Palestine on August 9, 2018. This country also severed its relations with the Tel Aviv regime on May 12, and the president of this country also said that a “genocidal” government is at work in Israel.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro a week after Al-Aqsa storm operation wrote on X social network that it will open an embassy in Ramallah. His words and positions after the beginning of the Gaza war caused the anger of the Israeli authorities, to the extent that Tel Aviv announced the suspension of arms exports to Colombia following the president’s statements.

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