RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL/Sputnik
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, made official the withdrawal of his nation’s ambassador to Israel, Fernando Meyer. In a decree revealed on Could 29, Meyer was named Brazil’s consultant on the Disarmament Convention of the United Nations (UN).
The decree doesn’t point out an alternative to the illustration of Brasilia in Tel Aviv, which in follow means the definitive withdrawal of Ambassador Meyer, who had been known as for consultations final February, when the governments of the 2 nations exchanged accusations and They skilled a critical diplomatic disaster.
On that event, Lula in contrast Israel’s assaults on Gaza to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, which led Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities to declare him “persona non grata.”
Meyer then suffered a public reprimand from the Chancellor of the Jewish State, Israel Katz, on the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, which deeply upset the Brazilian authorities.
Particular advisor to the Presidency and former Brazilian Overseas Minister Celso Amorim famous final week that Meyer’s keep in Israel was unsustainable as a result of the ambassador had been “humiliated.”
The Brazilian Embassy in Israel will any longer be led by the chargé d’affaires, reducing the significance of diplomatic illustration.
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