President Gabriel Boric of Chile announced at a Christmas party his plan to open an embassy “in Palestine”.
“One of the decisions we have taken as a government, I think we have not yet made it public… is that we will raise the level of our official representation in Palestine,” Boric said. “We will open an embassy under our government.”
Chile in 1998 had opened a representative office in Ramallah, and in 2011 recognized Palestine as a state and supported its entrance to UNESCO.
It is worth noting that the Chilean and Palestinian people have close relations, since the beginning of Palestinian immigration to this Latin American country due to the practices of the usurping entity, and today the number of Palestinians in Chile exceeds 300 thousand, constituting one of the largest Arab communities abroad.
