UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is slated to visit Israel next week for a three-day state visit.
His itinerary, according to the Israeli Mission to the UN, includes meetings with President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as visits to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and the Israel Museum.
The visit includes a helicopter tour of the country and a visit to Israeli villages on the Gaza border.
Guterres is also slated to travel to Ramallah for meetings with Palestinian leaders, and to visit the Gaza Strip.
Israel envoy to the world body, Danny Danon, says in a statement that the visit is an opportunity, “at a time of efforts to harm Israel at the UN, to show the secretary general Israel’s true character, its impressive achievements and contributions to humanity, and the complex reality and challenges we face in a turbulent Middle East.”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaking to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, Dec. 12, 2016. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)
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