The South American country will join the United States, Guatemala, Honduras and Kosovo, all of which have full embassies in Israel’s capital.
Suriname, a Dutch-speaking South America country, will open an embassy in Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid announced.
“Today, during our meeting in Jerusalem, Surinamese Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin informed me that his country plans to soon open an embassy in Jerusalem,” Lapid said Monday.
Suriname will join the United States, Guatemala, Honduras and Kosovo, all of which have full embassies in Israel’s capital.
Several other countries have opened official trade and defense offices and branches of their embassies, including Hungary and Australia.
Paraguay briefly opened its embassy in Jerusalem in 2018 before moving back to Tel Aviv.