Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully and tells him of Israel’s “difficult” quest for peace and security in light of “troubling developments.”
“There are reports now that Iran continues to grow its nuclear stockpile as the negotiations proceed. And if you add that to their continued development of ICBMs, to their vast terror network that spans five continents, the fact that they’re supporting rocket and missile attacks against us, their activities in Yemen, the fact that they violate all Security Council resolutions – that presents a serious challenge to peace and security in our place, in our region,” Netanyahu says.
“You’re going to head the Security Council. I wish you a lot of luck in it. I’d say that the main thing that we have learned is that peace is achieved, as we did with Jordan and with Egypt, through direct negotiations between parties and not by fiat. It just doesn’t work that way and I hope it works, but it has to work through direct negotiations and I look forward to discussing this and many other things with you,” adds the prime minister.
Prime minister Netanyahu meets with New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem on June 03, 2015. (Flash90)
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