Fiji will inaugurate its embassy in Jerusalem on September 17, 2025

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The Israeli Foreign Ministry announced that Fiji will inaugurate its embassy in Jerusalem on September 17, 2025, with Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sitiveni Rabuka attending the ceremony, as reported by the Times of Israel. Rabuska came to power in late 2022 as head of a tri-party government that included the right-wing Christian party Sodelpa, whose leaders championed Fiji's goal of opening an embassy in Jerusalem.

Fiji will thus become the second Pacific nation to open an embassy in Jerusalem, and the seventh in the world, after the United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Kosovo, Papua New Guinea, and Paraguay.

Meanwhile,ILTV.News reported that Israel praised the move as a strong diplomatic statement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar called Rabuka a "Friend of Israel" and reaffirmed that Jerusalem is "the eternal capital of the Jewish people." "I congratulate Fiji and its Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Friend of Israel, Sitiveni Rabuka, on their decision to open an embassy in Israel, in Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people," Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said in a statement.

Fiji's decision regarding the embassy follows a decades-long campaign by the Jerusalem-based International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, which mobilizes support for Israel in churches across the South Pacific.