NEW YORK — The Democratic Republic of Congo will move its embassy to Jerusalem, and Israel will open a diplomatic mission in Kinshasa, the leaders of the two countries said late Thursday.
The news, which was announced after a joint meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly general debate in New York, followed similar recent declarations by Paraguay and Sierra Leone as well as the opening earlier this month of the embassy of Papua New Guinea in Israel’s capital city.
