PM Netanyahu Comments on Intention to Add Conditions on Contacts between the
EU and Israel in the Future

(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this afternoon (Tuesday, 16 July 2013),
in his Jerusalem office, held consultations with Justice Minister Tzipi
Livni, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett and Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev
Elkin in wake of the intention to add conditions to contacts between the EU
and the State of Israel in the future.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said, "I would expect those who truly want peace
and stability in the region would discuss this issue after solving more
urgent regional problems such as the civil war in Syria or Iran's race to
achieve nuclear weapons. As the Prime Minister of Israel, I will not allow
the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who live in Judea and Samaria, on the
Golan Heights and in Jerusalem, our united capital, to be harmed. We will
not accept any outside diktat about our borders. This issue will be decided
only in direct negotiations between the sides."