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News ID: 73505
Publish Date : 04 December 2019 - 21:24

Malaysia Opens ‘Embassy to Palestine’ in Amman



AMMAN (Dispatches) – Malaysia has opened an "Embassy to Palestine” in Jordan, after Zionist regime authorities purportedly refused to grant officials from the Southeast Asian country access to the seat of Palestinian Authority in the central occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.Israeli English-language broadsheet newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported that the Zionist regime’s foreign ministry took the measure in response to what it described as various "anti-Semitic” and anti-Israel statements made by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.As a result, Malaysia opened an "Embassy to Palestine” in the Jordanian capital city of Amman, the report asserted.This is while Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah had earlier stated that his country plans to open an embassy accredited to Palestine in Jordan because it has no diplomatic ties between Kuala Lumpur and Tel Aviv.