- Title: JERUSLAEM/GOLAN HEIGHTS : JOHN MAJOR ON SECOND DAY OF VISIT TO THE MIDDLE EAST
- Date: 13th March 1995
- Summary: JERUSALEM AND GOLAN HEIGHTS (MARCH 13, 1995) (REUTERS TELEVISON - ACCESS ALL) JERUSALEM 1. SV BRITISH PRIME MINISTER JOHN MAJOR ARRIVING AT THE FOREIGN MINISTRY 0.10 2. SV MAJOR SEATED WITH ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER SHIMON PERES 0.18 3. SV MAJOR ARRVING AT YAD VASHEM MEMORIAL (3 SHOTS) 0.30 4. SV CHOIR / ETERNAL FLAME 0.49 5. SV MAJOR LAYS WREATH AT ETERNAL FLAME 1.10 GOLAN HEIGHTS 6. SV MAJOR AND ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN WALKING FROM HELICOPTER (2 SHOTS) 1.20 7. SV MAJOR SEATED OVER GOLAN HEIGHTS 1.36 8. SV VIEW OVER GOLAN HEIGHTS 1.40 9. SV RABIN BRIEFING MAJOR 1.51 10. SV RABIN AND MAJOR LEAVE 1.57 11. SV VARIOUS OF RIGHT WING DEMONSTRATORS WAVING ISRAELI FLAGS 2.18 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 28th March 1995 13:00
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- Location: JERUSALEM/ GOLAN HEIGHTS
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- Country: Israel
- Reuters ID: LVA8TQFMGPMRHPO7LZXW4OG8CLRT
- Story Text: British Prime Minister John Major, on the second day of a Middle East tour, paid tribute on Monday (March 13) to the victims of the Holocaust and got a first-hand strategic briefing on the Golan Heights in northern Israel.
Major, the only British prime minister to visit Israel except for Margaret Thatcher in 1986, was visibly moved as he toured Jerusalem's Yad Vashem memorial to the six million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis in World War Two.
"Those who forget the past may be condemned to relive it," Major, accompanied by his wife Norma, wrote in the visitors' book.
He said he would never forget his visit to Yad Vashem.
Earlier Major met with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to discuss British economic involvement in the Middle East. Amoungst the topics discussed were industrial parks in the West Bank and plans for a Middle East bank to finance regional private sector projects.
During the afternoon Major flew north by helicopter for a bird's-eye view of the Golan Heights which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and which Syria demands be returned.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin briefed Major from a vantage point where they could see the Golan and the Lebanese border, where Israel patrols a 15 km (nine mile) deep occupation strip.
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