Off the Wire

  • 1999-07-22
ISRAEL BACKS AMBASSADOR: The Israeli Foreign Ministry released a statement July 12 that officially backs its ambassador to the Baltics, Oded Ben-Hur, and maintains he has been misquoted by the Lithuanian press. Ben-Hur was criticized by the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry recently when the Baltic News Service reported that he called Lithuania a paradise for suspected Nazi war criminals. Both Ben-Hur and the Israeli Foreign Ministry contend he only urged that Lithuania take steps to try alleged war criminals. Israel also denied reports by BNS, and later picked up by the Lithuanian press, that Be...
 
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