(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - European anger over supposed Israeli misuse of passports to kill Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai played a "certain role" in shifting EU votes on the Goldstone Report in the UN General Assembly last week, visiting Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak told the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. The Slovak Republic, considered one of Israel's best friends in the EU, originally voted - along with six other EU countries - alongside Israel against endorsing the Goldstone Commission report at the General Assembly in November. In a second vote on the matter on Friday, however, all seven EU countries abstained, and another 10 countries that had abstained in the November vote - including Britain, France, Sweden, Belgium and Finland - voted in favor of an Arab resolution to keep the issue alive.
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