SARAJEVO, Jan 25 (Hina) - Bosnia's ambassador to Israel has delivered a protest note to the Israeli Foreign Ministry over statements made by two Israeli MPs during a recent visit to Croatia. After receiving the protest note, the head
of the Israeli Foreign Ministry's department for Europe and Asia, David Peleg, assured Ambassador Daniel Romano the statements made by Josef Lapid and David Morgan were not Israel's official statements, the Bosnian Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The two MPs had said in Croatia that Bosnia and Herzegovina posed a danger as the stronghold of Islamic terrorist in this region. The Israeli government is aware of Bosnia's commitment to participate in the antiterrorist campaign and has interpreted Bosnia's recent extradition of three Algerians suspected of terrorism as a concrete confirmation of that commitment, said Peleg. He told Ambassador Romano that Jews world-wide applauded Bosnia's endeavou
SARAJEVO, Jan 25 (Hina) - Bosnia's ambassador to Israel has
delivered a protest note to the Israeli Foreign Ministry over
statements made by two Israeli MPs during a recent visit to
Croatia.
After receiving the protest note, the head of the Israeli Foreign
Ministry's department for Europe and Asia, David Peleg, assured
Ambassador Daniel Romano the statements made by Josef Lapid and
David Morgan were not Israel's official statements, the Bosnian
Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
The two MPs had said in Croatia that Bosnia and Herzegovina posed a
danger as the stronghold of Islamic terrorist in this region.
The Israeli government is aware of Bosnia's commitment to
participate in the antiterrorist campaign and has interpreted
Bosnia's recent extradition of three Algerians suspected of
terrorism as a concrete confirmation of that commitment, said
Peleg.
He told Ambassador Romano that Jews world-wide applauded Bosnia's
endeavours to start functioning as a modern European state.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry will answer the Sarajevo protest note
in an attempt to advance Israeli-Bosnian relations.
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