Article: ISRAEL: FM SHALOM MEETS WITH BELGIAN PM VER HOFSTADT.(Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom, Prime Minister, Guy Ver Hofstadt)

(Communicated by the Foreign Minister's Spokesman, Jerusalem, 13 December 2004). Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom met today in Brussels with Belgian Prime Minister Guy Ver Hofstadt. This was the first meeting between senior officials since last year's crisis between the two countries following the passage of the Belgian law enabling the prosecution of people charged with crimes against humanity perpetrated outside Belgium. As a result of this law, Belgium submitted a request to the International Criminal Court in the Hague to prosecute Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for alleged crimes during the war in Lebanon. Following intensive efforts in ...

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