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Uruguay's President Tabare Vazquez lays a wreath on August 25, 2008 at the Hall of Remembrance in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.
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JERUSALEM (EJP)---Uruguay's President Tabare Vazquez on Monday laid a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.
The museum commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II.
Vazquez, who started an official three-day visit to Israel at the head of a high-level delegation that includes four ministers, visited the Holocaust Museum’s Hall of Names and the Children Memorial.
During his visit, the Uruguyan president is to meet with his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
According to the Israeli foreign ministry, Uruguay is one of the friendliest nations to Israel in South America.
In a previous visit to Israel in the 1970’s, President Vasquez, who is a doctor, had specialized in oncology at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot.
Around 25,000 Jews live in Uruguay.
