The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned Honduras’ decision to open a diplomatic office in Jerusalem linked to its embassy in Tel Aviv and decided to file a complaint with the United Nations against the move.
On Tuesday, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez announced that his country would open a diplomatic office in Jerusalem. While the mission will be an extension of the Tel Aviv-based embassy, Hernandez said it was “recognition that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.”
In a statement on Thursday reported by AFP, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said it would submit a formal complaint against Honduras to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
It described the decision “direct aggression” against the Palestinian people and a “blatant violation of international law and legitimacy.”
According to the statement, the Foreign Ministry also decided to submit a draft resolution in the UN General Assembly against Honduras for violating Security Council Resolution 478 of 1980.
Security Council Resolution 478 considers Israeli law to annex occupied East Jerusalem as null and void and calls on member-states not to establish diplomatic missions in the city or transfer those missions to it.
The ministry emphasized that the Honduras decision “does not help any international and regional efforts to achieve peace based on international references and the principle of a two-state solution, but disrupts those efforts.”
