El Salvador becomes the second country after Costa Rica to move its Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The move coincides with a ceremony in San Salvador marking the arrival of a new Israel Ambassador after the Israeli Embassy was closed there five years ago.
Signs of an improvement in Egyptian-Soviet relations, strained for more than a decade, emerge with the announcement that the two countries have agreed in principle to exchange Ambassadors.
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