Canada breaks taboo on Israel E.Jerusalem talks: report
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | April 11, 2013 20:59Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird met an Israeli minister in annexed Arab east Jerusalem this week, deliberately breaking a widely-observed diplomatic taboo, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday.
Baird met Justice Minister Tzipi Livni at her office in east Jerusalem, in a move normally avoided by visiting diplomats over concerns it could be seen as legitimising Israel’s annexation of the city’s eastern sector.
An Israeli working for an NGO that focusses on Canada-Israel relations told the Haaretz newspaper that the east Jerusalem meeting was a deliberate move with a political aim.
“Baird recognises the sensitivity but he wants to set a precedent,” the source said.
Israel captured east Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community.
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