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Israel’s Netanyahu declines offer to meet with Obama: White House
Israel’s Netanyahu declines offer to meet with Obama: White House
Israel’s Netanyahu declines offer to meet with Obama: White House. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declined an offer to meet President Barack Obama at the White House later this month and canceled his trip to Washington, the White House said on Monday, citing Israeli news reports. Netanyahu’s decision to nix his U.S. visit marked the latest episode in a fraught relationship with Obama that has yet to recover from their deep differences over last year’s U.S.-led international nuclear deal with Iran, Israel’s arch-foe. The White House said the Israeli government had requested a Netanyahu meeting with Obama on either March 18 or 19 and that he was offered a March 18 encounter two weeks ago. “We were looking forward to hosting the bilateral meeting, and we were surprised to first learn via media reports that the Prime Minister, rather than accept our invitation, opted to cancel his visit,” Ned Price, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said in an emailed statement. Price denied Israeli news reports that “that we were not able to accommodate the prime minister’s schedule.” The White House has announced Obama’s plans to be in Havana on March 21 and 22 for a historic visit aimed at moving closer toward normalized relations with Washington’s former Cold War foe. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa…
