Paraguayan President Santiago Peña announced on Wednesday that his country's embassy will be moved to Jerusalem tomorrow, Thursday.

The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said that the Paraguayan president's announcement "came during his visit to Israel."

She pointed out that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the decision, addressing the President of Paraguay, saying: "Your courageous promise to move the Paraguayan embassy to Jerusalem is beginning to take shape, and you deserve praise for that."

In May 2017, Asuncion held the opening ceremony of its embassy in Jerusalem, but in September 2018, former Paraguayan Foreign Minister Luis Alberto Castiglioni cancelled the move of his country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and reactivated the offices that had already been moved to Tel Aviv.

"Paraguay wants to contribute to intensifying regional diplomatic efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Middle East," Castiglione said at the time.

In mid-2018, the United States moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, followed by Guatemala, Kosovo, and Honduras, while the vast majority of countries reject Israel's requests to move their embassies to Jerusalem.

Palestinians, Arab and Islamic countries condemn the decisions to move foreign embassies to Jerusalem, and have called on several occasions for them to be reversed.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli Knesset held a welcoming session for the Paraguayan president, and he also met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

The Israeli President's Office said in a written statement, a copy of which was sent to Anadolu Agency: "President Isaac Herzog welcomed today, Wednesday, at the presidential headquarters in Jerusalem, Paraguayan President Santiago Peña, on his official visit to Israel (the duration of which was not specified), which will include the historic opening of the Paraguayan embassy in Jerusalem."

“We are very excited about your opening of the Embassy of Paraguay in Jerusalem, our holy city, our united city, the eternal capital of the State of Israel and the Jewish people,” Herzog said.

"It is important for us to come here and open the embassy as a symbol, because this symbolizes something much bigger, which is our friendship and the faith we have in a brighter future, and we all deserve to have a future," the president of Prague was quoted as saying.