German foreign minister calls Netanyahu threat to cancel meeting `regrettable'

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German foreign minister calls Netanyahu threat to cancel meeting `regrettable'
 Editor / Internet   10:39 April 25, 2017
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German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Tuesday it would be "regrettable" if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called off a meeting between the two in Israel, as he threatened to do if the foreign minister met with an Israeli rights group .

Gabriel said it would be a "remarkable event, to put it mildly," if Netanyahu cancelled their planned talks, arguing it was normal to talk to civil society representatives.

"Imagine if the Israeli Prime Minister ... came to Germany and wanted to meet people critical of the government and we said that is not possible ... That would be unthinkable," he told Germany's ZDF television.

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