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Planned Netanyahu trip to Argentina canceled for ‘technical reasons’
Nava Freiberg is The Times of Israel's deputy diplomatic correspondent.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to visit Argentina following his trip to the United States this week, but the visit was canceled “due to technical reasons,” a spokesperson for the Argentinian embassy tells The Times of Israel
The spokesperson is responding to a Ynet report that claimed that during a meeting last week between Netanyahu and Argentinian President Javier Milei on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Milei requested to postpone the visit over “political concerns.”
A visit from Netanyahu – who faces growing isolation on the global stage amid condemnation of the war in Gaza and international arrest warrants – would have come at a critical political juncture for Milei, who cited “Argentina’s upcoming parliamentary elections and concern it could hurt [Milei] politically at a time when his standing has weakened” as reason to postpone, according to the report.
The embassy spokesperson denies this.
Human rights lawyers filed a complaint last month in Argentina’s federal courts seeking Netanyahu’s arrest should he visit the country, amid reports of the possible September trip, according to Reuters. The filing by Argentine attorney Rodolfo Yanzon and Raji Sourani, head of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, accuses Netanyahu of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Following their New York meeting, Netanyahu hailed Milei – one of Israel’s staunchest supporters, who announced in June that he would move Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem next year – as “a true friend of Israel and the Jewish people, who stands firm against the systematic bias directed at Israel in the UN and other international forums.”
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