The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) “foreign ministry” on Sunday condemned the announcement by Brazil regarding the opening of a trade office with diplomatic status in Jerusalem.
In a statement quoted by the PA’s official Wafa news agency, the bureau said it “considered this position a blatant violation of international legitimacy and its resolutions and a direct aggression against the Palestinian people and their rights, as well as an approval to American and Israeli pressures aimed at perpetuating the occupation and settlement activities, the Judaizing and annexing of occupied Jerusalem, and the forceful imposition of the Israeli law on it.”
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