(JTA) – Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez traveled to Israel on Aug. 30 to inaugurate a “diplomatic office” in Jerusalem, the French news agency AFP reported. The Honduran Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the office in Jerusalem will be an extension of its embassy in Tel Aviv. “For me it’s the recognition that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel,” Hernandez told reporters during the dedication of a bridge on Aug. 27. “This has been much debated in the world, and I know that I will be criticized for this, but if Honduras has as its capital Tegucigalpa, and another country refuses to recognize it, it is [equivalent to] not recognizing our sovereignty.”

Hernandez graduated from an Israeli leadership course from the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, or Mashav, in 1992 at the beginning of his diplomatic career.

President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and officially moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem in May. Guatemala moved its embassy to Jerusalem just two days later. Earlier this year, Paraguay also announced plans to move its embassy, but reversed the decision months later. 

The Republic of Nauru, a tiny Pacific island country, also recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in August. Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz commended the island nation for its recognition on Wednesday evening, Aug. 28, in a tweet  which also said: “We will continue to strengthen Jerusalem and to bring about the recognition and opening of diplomatic missions and embassies in our capital.” Nauru’s mission to the United Nations in New York said in a letter dated August 16 to the Israeli mission that: “The Mission of Nauru has the honor to convey the decision of the Government of the Republic of Nauru to formally recognize the City of Jerusalem as the Capital City of the State of Israel.” Nauru’s population in 2017, according to the World Bank, was less than 14,000.

Government officials from several countries, including the Czech Republic, Romania, Lithuania, Australia and Brazil, have expressed interest in moving their embassies to Jerusalem. In March, Hungary opened a diplomatic trade mission in Jerusalem, which is considered a branch of the Hungarian Embassy in Tel Aviv.