The Senate voted unanimously to appoint the diplomat Fernando Arroyo as new ambassador of Uruguay in it State of Palestine.
This Wednesday, and even with the war between Israel and Hamas latent, the career official, who was already the Uruguayan ambassador in Egypt and Iranamong other positions, received 26 votes from the 26 legislators present.
The government had sent the designation of Stream as ambassador in Palestine on September 11, almost a month before the armed incursion of Hamas into Israel on October 7, which left hundreds of Israelis and other nationalities dead.
The senator of Colorado Party (PC), German Coutinhoheld today at a press conference the appointment of Stream as “good news”, despite “what is happening in that area of the world, in an environment of conflict.”
Coutinho defined Stream as “a career ambassador” who is “committed” and who “knows the process of history in that part of the world.”
“Uruguay recognizes the two states, Israel and Palestine”
The former mayor of Leap said that the relationship between Uruguay and Palestine is virtuous, since the country “recognizes the two States, that of Israel and that of Palestine“.
“Fernando Arroyo meets the conditions to be our representative in this very difficult time, and that is why he was voted unanimously,” he stressed. Coutinho.
On the opposition side, the senator Broad Front (FA), José Carlos Mahíaalso valued positively Stream for their credentials.
“Destiny is a place where you just happen to be in a moment of extremely high conflict,” remarked the Frente-Amplista legislator.
Likewise, he commented that the new ambassador “will undoubtedly have a hard job,” and that it was not in the plans when the Executive Branch sent the initiative. “It’s going to be a very big responsibility,” he said.
Source: Ambito
