PM Netanyahu leaves for Lithuania 23 August 2018
Israeli Missions Around The World MFA Press Room 2018 PM Netanyahu leaves for Lithuania 23 August 2018

PM Netanyahu leaves for Lithuania

  • 8/23/2018
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    PM Netanyahu: I am interested in balancing the not always friendly EU approach toward the State of Israel, in order to achieve an approach that is more fair and genuine to the State of Israel.
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    PM Netanyahu and his wife Sara boarding the plane upon departure for Lithuania PM Netanyahu and his wife Sara boarding the plane upon departure for Lithuania Copyright: GPO/Amos Ben-Gershom
     
     
    ​Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Thursday, 23 August 2018), at Ben-Gurion International Airport, made the following remarks prior to boarding a plane for Vilna, Lithuania:
     
    "I have been invited to the Baltic states summit. This is the first time that a Prime Minister of Israel will be visiting Lithuania and has been invited to this summit. This reflects Israel's growing stature around the world.
     
    Of course, we are interested in tightening economic and diplomatic links with these countries just as they are interested in doing the same with us. I am also interested in balancing the not always friendly EU approach toward the State of Israel, in order to achieve an approach that is more fair and genuine to the State of Israel. I do this through contacts with blocs of countries within the EU, the countries of Eastern Europe, [and] now with the Baltic states and, of course, with other states.
     
    Beyond this, during the visit to Lithuania I will, of course, recall the splendid Jewish community that was there, its great heights and the abyss of the tragedy of the Holocaust. There is also a personal aspect to this. The families of my parents – of blessed memory – came from Lithuania at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th; I am making this visit also for this."

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