Israel on Thursday opened a new bureau of cooperation in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, in a sign of the warming ties between the Jewish state and the Central American country.
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez attended the ceremony personally. Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi tweeted, "The Israeli flag flies in Honduras again, for the first time in 26 years.
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"I congratulated the president of Honduras and my counterpart on the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and promised to deepen cooperation and friendly relations between the two countries."
