Embassy of Palestine to Peru | |
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Location | San Isidro, Lima, Peru |
Address | Calle La República 982 [1] |
Opened | 1979 (office); 2015 (embassy) |
Website | Official website |
The Embassy of the State of Palestine in Peru is the higher diplomatic representation of the State of Palestine in Peru. Since 2015, the embassy is located in San Isidro, Lima; the current ambassador of Palestine to Peru is Walid Muaqqat.
Peru does not have a representation in Ramallah or any other city in Palestine, although former president Pedro Castillo announced the intention of the country to open an Embassy in 2022. [2] [3]
The first Palestinian representation in Peru opened in 1979, under the left-leaning Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Peru, as the office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which at the time had no diplomatic status. [4]
In 1998, an agreement to host a Special Delegation of the PLO was signed, and in 2000, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar raised the level of the delegation with all the privileges granted to countries in embassies accredited in Peru, making the delegation a de facto embassy. [4] Ollanta Humala later officially recognised the State of Palestine on January 24, 2011. [5]
The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Palestine in Peru (Arabic : سفير دولة فلسطين لدى البيرو; Spanish : Embajador Extraordinario y Plenipotenciario del Estado de Palestina en el Perú) is the foremost representative of the Palestinian government to the Government of Peru.
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Name | Portrait | Term begin | Term end | President | Notes |
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1979:Palestine Liberation Organization office opened in Lima | |||||
Issam Besseiso | 1979 | 1984 | Yasser Arafat | First PLO representative to Peru; [6] not officially recognised as a diplomat. [4] He was appointed to the PLO's office in Sofia, leaving in 1984. His farewell party was attended by congressman Miguel Ángel Mufarech and then Mayor of Lima, Alfonso Barrantes. [7] | |
Bassim Abd-El-Rajman | 1984 | 1984 | As PLO representative to Peru. A member of Fatah, he was in Karachi until February 1984, when he was reportedly expelled alongside three other PLO members by the Pakistani government. [7] | ||
Hussein Abdel Khalik | December 1984 | c.1991 | As PLO representative to Peru. [8] [9] He arrived in late December 1984 [10] [11] with his wife, Francisca Zanor, and his daughter, being received by the Algerian ambassador to Peru, Mustafé Lecheraf, and Palestinian representatives. [10] | ||
Sabri Atieh | 1992 | 1994 | As PLO representative to Peru. [12] [13] | ||
Walid Ibrahim Muaqqat | ![]() | May 14, 1998 | May 25, 2001 | As Chief Ambassador of the Special Mission of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Peru. [14] On May 14, 1998, he signed the agreement that established the PLO's delegation in Lima [14] [15] and in 2000 it was elevated to a "special diplomatic mission." [14] | |
May 25, 2001 | December 31, 2005 | As Chief Ambassador of the Special Mission of Palestine in Peru. | |||
Walid Abdel Rahim | ![]() | March 4, 2006 | December 11, 2010 | Mahmoud Abbas | As Chief Ambassador of the Special Mission of Palestine in Peru. [16] |
24 January 2011:Diplomatic relations between Palestine and Peru formally established | |||||
Walid Abdel Rahim | ![]() | December 11, 2010 | 2014 | Mahmoud Abbas | First ambassador prior to Peru's diplomatic recognition of Palestine. [17] |
Walid Ibrahim Muaqqat | ![]() | April 23, 2015 | Incumbent | As ambassador. He presented his credentials on April 23, 2015. [18] [19] | |
The foreign relations of Peru are managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. is an important first-tier state in South America, Peru has been a member of the United Nations since 1945, and Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar served as UN Secretary General from 1981 to 1991. Former President Alberto Fujimori's tainted re-election to a third term in June 2000 strained Peru's relations with the United States and with many Latin American and European countries, mainly small countries like Yemen but relations improved with the installation of an interim government in November 2000 and the inauguration of Alejandro Toledo in July 2001.
Mexico–Palestine relations are the diplomatic relations between the United Mexican States and the State of Palestine. Both nations are members of UNESCO.
Palestine–Peru relations are bilateral relations between the State of Palestine and Peru. Peru recognized Palestine as a sovereign state on 24 January 2011. Both nations are members of the Non-Aligned Movement. Palestine has an embassy in Lima.
Peru–Sahrawi Republic relations refers to the current and historical relations between the Republic of Peru and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
Walid Ibrahim Muaqqat is a Palestinian politician and diplomat, currently serving as the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Peru since 2015. He previously represented his country in Argentina, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador and Uruguay, either on behalf of the State of Palestine, the Palestinian National Authority or the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
After five years as the PLO's official representative in Peru, Issam Besseiso, is leaving to assume a similar position in Sofia, Bulgaria. His replacement, Bassim Abd-El-Rajman, a member of Al-Fatah, was in Karachi until February, 1984 when he and three other PLO leaders were expelled by the Pakistani government for "activities against the State." An editorial printed in the Peruvian daily "Expreso" in April called upon the government to close down the PLO office which it labeled "an embassy for terrorism." "Expreso" sees Besseiso's move to Bulgaria, "the major sanctuary of international terrorism", as a career promotion. At a farewell party for Besseiso, Peruvian Congressman Miguel Angel Mufarech commended him on his efficient work in Peru which allowed the Peruvians to "learn of the fight against international Zionism." Lima's mayor Alfonso Barrentes Lingan, at that party, called for victory to the Palestinian people. [sic]
18 de Noviembre: El representante de la Organización Para la Liberación de Palestina en el Perú, Hussein Abdel Khalik, quien arribó al Perú después de sostener una serie de conversaciones en el exterior, [...]
Las respuestas de Yuval Metzer, embajador de Israel, y de Sabri Atieh, representante de la OLP en el Perú, [...]
14-V-98.- El Perú suscribió el acuerdo para el establecimiento de sede de la Delegación Especial de la Organización para la Liberación de Palestina (OLP). El acuerdo fue firmado por el Director General de Política Multilateral, Embajador José Urrutia, y por el Representante de la OLP en el Perú, señor Walid Ibrahim Muaqqat, en el Palacio Torre Tagle.