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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

After 57 years of ties, Singapore to open embassy in Israel

Singapore would also open a ‘representative office’ in West Bank to boost relations with the Palestinian Authority. (AP pic)

Wonder if there will be any protests in Bolehland?

JERUSALEM: Singapore will open its first embassy in Israel, nearly six decades after establishing ties with the Jewish state, Israel’s foreign ministry said on Monday.

The announcement came after Singapore’s foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan said the city-state would also open a “representative office” in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to boost relations with the Palestinian Authority.

Israel’s foreign minister Yair Lapid, who met Balakrishnan on Monday, said Singapore’s decision to open an embassy highlighted “the good and special relations between our two countries”, which were established in 1965.

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