ISRAEL-ASIA/ABE-SHRINES Japanese PM Shinzo Abe visits Jerusalem shrines.

Record ID: 398916

  • Title: ISRAEL-ASIA/ABE-SHRINES Japanese PM Shinzo Abe visits Jerusalem shrines.
  • Date: 19th January 2015
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (JANUARY 19, 2015) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** EXTERIOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE VARIOUS OF JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER SHINZO ABE, ACCOMPANIED BY GUARDS AND JAPANESE DELEGATION, INSIDE THE CHURCH ABE AND HIS WIFE, AKIE, RECEIVING TOUR OF CHURCH VARIOUS OF DELEGATION IN CHURCH ABE AND AKIE ABE TAKING SEATS CLOSE OF ABE AND HIS WIFE A
  • Embargoed: 3rd February 2015 12:00
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  • Location: Jerusalem
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  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVACIXKI8TOF128XRKA64YLBZD3N
  • Story Text: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Jerusalem's Christian and Jewish shrines on Monday (January 19) during a three day visit to Jerusalem and the West Bank.
    Abe, accompanied by his wife Akie, toured the church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Western Wall, revered by Jews as a perimeter wall of the Biblical Temple.
    Earlier on Monday Abe met his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu where they addressed regional threats and Abe said Japan was committed to maintain bilateral ties with Israel and to help revive collapsed peace talks.
    Netanyahu said on Sunday (January 18) Israel was pushing to expand trade with Asia, Japan in particular, partly due to a wave of anti-Semitism and what he called "Islamisation" in Western Europe.
    Europe is Israel's biggest trading partner, but deepening diplomatic disputes over policy toward the Palestinians and anti-Jewish incidents such as a Jan. 9 attack by an Islamist gunman on a Paris kosher deli have triggered Israeli worries.
    Netanyahu, who is also finance minister and a free-market champion, cast his courting of China, India and Japan over the past two years as a partial response to European developments.
    After the meeting Abe met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in his Jerusalem residence where the two leaders discussed Israel-Japan ties and regional issues.
    Abe was scheduled to visit the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday (January 20) where he will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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