Argentina’s ultra-liberal president, who arrived in Israel today, said as soon as he got off the plane in Tel Aviv that his “plan” is to move his country’s embassy, ​​which is currently located near Tel Aviv, to Jerusalem.

“My plan is to move the embassy to West Jerusalem,” Javier Millay said when he was met at the airport by Foreign Minister Israel Katz.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office welcomed the announcement, saying the Argentine president “keeps his promises” on the matter.

Miley, who is making his first foreign visit to Israel since his election in November, has already announced his intention on a highly sensitive issue to move his country’s embassy to Jerusalem.

Argentina will therefore be one of the few countries to have such a diplomatic representation in Israel, in this city, a key issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Only Papua New Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Kosovo and most notably the United States — as of 2018, under the presidency of Donald Trump — have an embassy in Jerusalem.

Miley had repeatedly stated before he was even elected that his allies would be “the United States, Israel and the free world.”

Before leaving for Israel, Millay had called that country a natural “great ally” of Buenos Aires, just like Washington.

The partition plan for Palestine passed by the UN in 1947 provided for a special, international status for Jerusalem because of its importance to Jews, Christians and Muslims.

However, at the end of the first Israeli-Arab war, the city is cut in two, under Israeli control for its western side, and Jordanian control for its eastern side.

Israel captured East Jerusalem and annexed it in 1967 before declaring the “unified” city its “eternal” and “indivisible” capital in 1980. A decision not accepted by the United Nations, for which East Jerusalem is occupied Palestinian territory.

Miley, 53, who was raised Catholic, has explained in the past that he has been on a spiritual journey in recent years and came close to Judaism — studying the Torah as a self-taught individual — without converting to that religion.