France calls for its lawmakers to be given full access to “all of the interlocutors they wish to meet” after Israel announced it will not allow a group of European officials, including French parliamentarians, to visit Israel due to their efforts to promote boycotts of the Jewish state.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri announced yesterday that he will adopt the recommendation of Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan to deny entry to the group’s 20 participants, among whom are French parliamentarians and mayors, and members of the European Parliament.
The group was scheduled to visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority areas on November 19-23 and had announced that its primary purpose was to visit Marwan Barghouti and other Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli jails and offer them support.
“In general, we want all French parliamentarians to have access to all of the interlocutors they wish to meet in order to conduct their fact-finding missions,” the spokesperson for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs says in a statement.
“We are paying close attention to this matter with respect to Israel as with respect to all countries that French elected officials visit,” the statement adds.
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