Israel's Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi flew to Berlin Wednesday on his first official visit overseas where he is set to meet with his EU counterparts.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas invited Ashkenazi to Thursday's conference of EU foreign ministers.
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Shortly after his arrival, Ashkenazi met with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, thanking him for his country's stance in designating the entirety of Hezbollah - both the political and military wing - as a terrorist organization.
In addition to updating the president on the recent deal to normalize ties between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, Ashkenazi also implored Germany's head of state to prevent the United Nations' arms embargo against Iran from running down in October.
Ashkenazi spoke at a ceremony at "Platform 17 in Berlin's Grunewald Station, where there is a memorial marking Nazi Germany's deportation of more than 55,000 Jews. He was joined by Israeli Ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff, Foreign Ministry Director-General Alon Ushpiz, and representatives of the German Jewish community," according to The Jerusalem Post.
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"I stand here as the foreign minister of the government of Israel and the former IDF chief of staff," Ashkenazi said. "Jews will never again be sent to their death because they are Jewish. Never again."
The foreign minister will visit Wannsee, the villa in a Berlin suburb where the architects of the Nazi "Final solution" met - under the direction of Reinhardt Heydrich - to iron out details for the attempted slaughter of Europe's 11 million Jews.
This article was originally published by i24NEWS.
