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Article: Israeli defense minister to visit US to discuss strike against Iraq
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- December 14, 2002
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Israeli defense minister to visit US to discuss strike against
Iraq
JERUSALEM, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Defense Minister Shaul
Mofaz will leave Saturday for Washington in his first visit to the
United States as defense minister, Israel Radio reported.
Mofaz is scheduled to meet with US Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld, National Security advisor Condoleezza Rice and Secretary
of State Colin Powell, as well as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Their talks will focus on the possible US strike against Iraq and
the security situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Soon after the visit, the United States and Israel will hold a
massive joint military exercise aimed at ...