Georgian President attends World Holocaust Forum in Israel with world leaders
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili and US Vice President Mike Pence during the event. Photo: president of Georgia press office.
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Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, who is on her first official visit to Israel, has attended the 5th World Holocaust Forum with top state officials across the world earlier today.
The event was timed with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers, and came with the message that ‘antisemitism has no place in our global society.’
Arriving at the #WorldHolocaustForum. @EmmanuelMacron ???????????????? pic.twitter.com/zPnO0Spo8S
— Salome Zourabichvili (@Zourabichvili_S) January 23, 2020
The Jewish people have gone through a tragic history. And yet, it has always stood up from its challenges, looking forward to the future,” Zurabishvili has stated.
The Jewish people has gone through a heavy history. And yet, it has always stood up from its challenges, looking forward to the future. The Wailing Wall stands as the symbol of resilience of the Jewish people, who have always and will always have a friend in Georgia. pic.twitter.com/9QZmM4gxMz
— Salome Zourabichvili (@Zourabichvili_S) January 22, 2020
While in Israel Zurabishvili has attended the opening of a new building for the Honorary Consulate of Georgia in Jerusalem.
The opening of the new building for the Honorary Consulate of Georgia in Jerusalem was a great event! A sure sign that Georgia’s cultural and economic presence in Jerusalem will grow and that we will increase the people-to-people ties between the people of Georgia and Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/6dMwoK26W2
— Salome Zourabichvili (@Zourabichvili_S) January 23, 2020
Zurabishvili arrived in Israel on January 21.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, who is holding meetings in Israel, has stated that relations between Georgia and Israel ‘are not only deep and close, they are historical’ as 26 centuries ‘have shaped the bonds between the Jewish and Georgian people.’ Zurabishvili has met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, with whom an agreement was reached that the process of signing the agreement on legal employment of Georgians in Israel will be accelerated.
Ran Gidor, an Israeli diplomat who previously served in the Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea, has been appointed as the new ambassador of Israel to Georgia.
Georgian Foreign Ministry has denied the mass detention of Georgian citizens in Israel as reported by several of Georgian media outlets. The ministry reported earlier today that 24 Georgians have been brought to the deportation centre of Israel’s immigration service in the past few days.
2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Georgia and Israel.
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