RAMALLAH, February 18, 2025 (WAFA) – The Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry Tuesday condemned Fijian Prime Minister of Sitiveni Rabuka’s decision to open an embassy in Jerusalem.

It slammed the decision as a violation of international law and the United Nations resolutions on the legal and political status of the city of Jerusalem and the Palestinian people’s just and legitimate rights.

It considered the decision an act of aggression on the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights and as a step that not only demonstrates the fact that Fiji has chosen the wrong side of history, but that also imperils the prospects for peace based on the principle of the two-state solution, amounts to normalization with Israeli settler-colonialism and occupation and constitutes a blatant defiance of the relevant UN resolutions, at a time when Israel, the occupying state, has stepped up its aggression throughout Palestine to displace Palestinians.

It affirmed that it would take the necessary diplomatic, legal, and political steps to prosecute the countries that opened or relocated their embassies to Jerusalem and demanded that the government of Fiji immediately reverse this decision.

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