# Embassy of Palestine, Lima

The Embassy of the State of Palestine in Peru is the higher diplomatic representation of the State of Palestine in Peru. Since 2015, the embassy is located in San Isidro, Lima; the current ambassador of Palestine to Peru is Walid Muaqqat.
Peru does not have a representation in Ramallah or any other city in Palestine, although former president Pedro Castillo announced the intention of the country to open an embassy in 2022.

## History

The first Palestinian representation in Peru opened in 1979, under the left-leaning Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Peru, as the office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which at the time had no diplomatic status.
In 1998, an agreement to host a Special Delegation of the PLO was signed, and in 2000, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar raised the level of the delegation with all the privileges granted to countries in embassies accredited in Peru, making the delegation a de facto embassy. Ollanta Humala later officially recognised the State of Palestine on January 24, 2011.

## Ambassadors

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Palestine in Peru (Arabic: سفير دولة فلسطين لدى البيرو; Spanish: Embajador Extraordinario y Plenipotenciario del Estado de Palestina en el Perú) is the foremost representative of the Palestinian government to the Government of Peru.
| Name | Term begin | Term end | President | Notes |
| 1979: Palestine Liberation Organization office opened in Lima ||||||
| Issam Besseiso | 1979 | 1984 | Yasser Arafat | First PLO representative to Peru; not officially recognised as a diplomat. He was appointed to the PLO's office in Sofia, leaving in 1984. His farewell party was attended by congressman Miguel Ángel Mufarech and then Mayor of Lima, Alfonso Barrantes. |
| Bassim Abd-El-Rajman | 1984 | 1984 | Yasser Arafat | As PLO representative to Peru. A member of Fatah, he was in Karachi until February 1984, when he was reportedly expelled alongside three other PLO members by the Pakistani government. |
| Hussein Abdel Khalik | December 1984 | c. 1991 | Yasser Arafat | As PLO representative to Peru. He arrived in late December 1984 with his wife, Francisca Zanor, and his daughter, being received by the Algerian ambassador to Peru, Mustafé Lecheraf, and Palestinian representatives. |
| Sabri Atieh | 1992 | 1994 | Yasser Arafat | As PLO representative to Peru. |
| Walid Ibrahim Muaqqat | May 14, 1998 | May 25, 2001 | Yasser Arafat | As Chief Ambassador of the Special Mission of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Peru. On May 14, 1998, he signed the agreement that established the PLO's delegation in Lima and in 2000 it was elevated to a "special diplomatic mission." |
| Walid Ibrahim Muaqqat | May 25, 2001 | December 31, 2005 | Yasser Arafat | As Chief Ambassador of the Special Mission of Palestine in Peru. |
| Walid Abdel Rahim | March 4, 2006 | December 11, 2010 | Mahmoud Abbas | As Chief Ambassador of the Special Mission of Palestine in Peru. |
| 24 January 2011: Diplomatic relations between Palestine and Peru formally established ||||||
| Walid Abdel Rahim | December 11, 2010 | 2014 | Mahmoud Abbas | First ambassador prior to Peru's diplomatic recognition of Palestine. |
| Walid Ibrahim Muaqqat | April 23, 2015 | Incumbent | Mahmoud Abbas | As ambassador. He presented his credentials on April 23, 2015. |