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MEXICO CITY, April 10. (DPA/EP) –
Nicaragua has closed its embassy in Berlin as a result of the lawsuit it filed against Germany before the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) for alleged complicity with the genocide that Israel would be committing on the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip.
Consequently, it will be the diplomatic mission of Nicaragua in Austria that will assume these functions, as confirmed this Wednesday to the DPA news agency by an employee of the Nicaraguan Embassy in Vienna, whose ambassador, Sabra Murillo, will also serve as representative in Germany.
Nicaragua has presented a claim this week to the ICJ to demand that Germany end the support it would be providing to Israel in its campaign of “extermination of the Palestinian people” and for not preventing the “genocide” on Gaza.
In this sense, he has pointed out that although “from the first day” it was “evident” that the Israeli military offensive violated International Humanitarian Law, Germany has increased both its military assistance to Israel and its political support, recalling that it criticized the demand submitted by South Africa also before the ICJ.
For its part, Germany has rejected these accusations and has assured that as a State “it does everything possible to fulfill its responsibilities, both to the Israeli and Palestinian people.”
