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Israeli Foreign Minister at UN Conference in Tunisia


(Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom arrived in Tunisia Tuesday at the head of Israel's delegation to the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS), a UN-sponsored conference. "We come to this summit, which deals with technology and communications, with proposals for regional cooperation with our neighbors for the welfare of all the peoples of the region. This...will be another brick in the structure we are building with the Arab countries, a joint structure of dialogue and coming closer together," he said. For Minister Shalom the visit also has a personal poignancy: He was born in Tunisia and was brought by his parents to Israel when he was one year old.
2005-11-16 00:00:00
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