RAMALLAH, Thursday, December 05, 2019 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Foreign Ministry today summoned a Brazilian diplomat over a Brazilian lawmaker’s visit to an Israeli colonial settlement in the West Bank.

Assistant Foreign Minister for Latin American and Caribbean Affairs Counselor Hanan Jarrar stated that the Brazilian ambassador to Palestine Francisco Mauro Brasil de Holanda following Foreign Affairs Minister Riyad Malki’s instructions over the visit of Brazilian diplomat Eduardo Bolsonaro, who is the son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, to the illegal Israeli colonial settlement of Psagot near Ramallah.

Jarrar affirmed that Israeli colonial settlement on Palestinian territories were illegal and illegitimate, and that Bolsonaro’s visit constituted a clear violation of international law and as well as of the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and of the General Assembly.

She noted that this visit “does not reflect the image of Brazil as a major supporter of the Palestinian question and one of the first Latin American countries to recognize the State of Palestine.

She expressed her concern that such a move would imperil the strong Palestinian-Brazilian bilateral relations, which Palestine was keen to maintain.

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