Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praises the commitment of US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to restore calm to the restive Israel-Syria border.
Speaking to reporters at his office in Jerusalem ahead of a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Netanyahu hails Jerusalem’s ties with Moscow as “extraordinarily important.”
“I appreciate what President Putin and President Trump said about Israel’s security at the last summit,” he says according to a PMO statement.
After a closed-door meeting with Trump in Helsinki last week, Putin said that a plan to return regime troops to the Syrian Golan Heights after the rebels’ surrender would “restore quiet to the Golan Heights, bring a more peaceful relationship between Syria and Israel, and also provide security to the State of Israel.”
Trump said both Russia and the US were committed to Israel’s security and both countries would work toward that end. “Creating safety for Israel is something that both President Putin and I would like to see very much,” Trump said at the joint press conference with Putin.
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