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19/02/2010 00:41
Jerusalem Post.com
UK, Ireland envoys have “nothing to add”; France, Germany demand explanations.
Following a 20-minute meeting in London between Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor and a senior British diplomat on Thursday, Israeli officials are cautiously optimistic that a diplomatic crisis with Britain can be avoided over the fake British passports apparently used in the assassination of Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.
Prosor, emerging from his meeting with the Foreign Office’s Peter Ricketts, said he had “no additional information” to provide the British authorities.
Israel’s envoy to Dublin, Zion Evrony, made a similar comment when he was called in for a meeting at the Irish Foreign Ministry following revelations that three of those in the alleged hit squad had carried fake Irishpassports.
“I said that I did not know anything about the event,” Evrony said.
One Israeli diplomatic official said there was no diplomatic crisis with the UK, “because there is nothing to connect this with Israel.”.
