Vice President Pence will leave Washington one week from Friday for a four-day Middle East tour that will take him to Egypt, Israel and Jordan, his office announced Monday.

The trip was originally planned for last month, but Pence pushed it back in case his vote was needed to pass the Republican tax plan in the Senate.

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Aides said the postponement was not related to President Trump Donald John TrumpHR McMaster says president's policy to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is 'unwise' Cast of 'Parks and Rec' reunite for virtual town hall to address Wisconsin voters Biden says Trump should step down over coronavirus response MORE’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, which sparked controversy in the region.

Pence will leave Jan. 19 for Egypt, where he will hold talks the next day with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The vice president plans to meet with Jordan’s King Abdullah II two days later, a sit down that was not on his original schedule.

Pence will then spend two days in Israel, where he will visit Jerusalem’s Western Wall and the city’s Holocaust memorial and give a speech to the Israeli parliament.

He will also hold a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“At President Trump's direction, the vice president is traveling to the Middle East to reaffirm our commitment to work with the U.S.'s allies in the region to defeat radicalism that threatens future generations,” Pence spokeswoman Alyssa Farah said in a statement.

She said Pence plans to call on leaders to “work together to fight terrorism and improve our national security."

The vice president is a vocal supporter of Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a topic that is sure to come up in his talks.

Jerusalem’s status has long been one of the main obstacles to a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.

Palestinian leaders were enraged with Trump’s decision and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is refusing to meet with Pence.

Before Trump's announcement, Abbas was scheduled to meet with Pence in the biblical town of Bethlehem. But the Palestinian leader pulled out of the meeting in protest.

Israel considers Jerusalem its undivided capital but Palestinians want a capital for a future state in the eastern part of the city, which Israel captured during the 1967 Six Day War.

The United Nations does not recognize Israeli control over Jerusalem. Trump’s decision upended decades of U.S. policy, which said the final status of Jerusalem should be determined through peace negotiations.