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PM Netanyahu Meets with Croatian PM Plenkovic
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Meets with Croatian Prime Minister Andrej
Plenkovic
(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this morning (Tuesday, 24 January 2017),
in Jerusalem, met with Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, who is on
his first visit to Israel as Prime Minister.
The Croatian Prime Minister invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to visit
Croatia, which is among the friendliest countries to Israel in Europe;
relations have become significantly closer in the past year.
The two men signed a declaration of intent on cooperation in the field of
prevention of disasters and emergency response. The signing is in the wake
of the assistance that Israel received from Croatia during the recent fires
and in light of Croatia’s rapid response in providing that assistance, and
provides a basis for cooperation.
Following is an excerpt from the declaration of intent:
“[The two sides] hereby declare their intention to explore possibilities of
joint avenues of cooperation in the field of prevention of disasters and
emergency response.
Such cooperation may include the following forms and methods:
Exchange of experts and study visits;
Assistance upon request at times of occurrence of disasters;
Sharing of information on training programs in the field of preventing and
emergency response;
Exchange of lessons learned from previous experience;
Any other form or method agreed by the Parties.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu:
“It’s your first visit to Israel. Certainly I hope it’s not the last because
we want to make sure that we have ongoing visits.
I thank you for your invitation to me to visit Croatia. You have a beautiful
country and many Israelis go there, and of course we would like to go there
too at the appropriate time.
We’ve seen a great improvement in our relations in recent years and I want
to thank you especially for your strong support in international forums, in
European forums, in the UN and elsewhere you stood very clearly and very
firmly for the truth, which means standing for Israel.
We cooperate in many fields and we spoke just now about the need to
cooperate even further in the fields of economy, of technology, in every
field of economic endeavor but also in the field that we’re already
advancing, which is emergency disaster cooperation. The best example is
firefighting – we are making progress in a joint international force that
we’d like to make from countries in the Mediterranean region. We’re having
an exercise, I think a joint exercise in May, that is a practical
application of what we’re doing, and we’re going to sign a deceleration for
cooperation in emergency situations.
Beyond that, I think that we are living in a world of great challenge and
opportunities. The challenge is clear, there are destabilizing forces
throughout our region, some of them are sending firmaments into your region,
to the entire world and we have to fight this militant Islamic terrorism
together but we also want to achieve an international order of some balance
and stability to allow security and prosperity for our peoples.
This is a very much a goal shared by the two of us and I look forward to
continuing that discussion this morning with you and your delegation and to
welcome you once again to Jerusalem. Welcome.”
Source: http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=72079
