President of Chad meets with Netanyahu, ‘wants to renew ties’ with Israel

Netanyahu with President of Chad Idriss Deby. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

After meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President of Chad Idriss Deby declared his desire to reestablish relations with the Jewish state, following a decades-long break in diplomacy between the nations.

By Ilanit Chernick, TPS

In a historic visit to Israel, President of Chad Idriss Deby told reporters on Sunday during a joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he “wants to renew ties between the two countries, and that doing so would not eliminate the Palestinian problem.”

During the press conference Netanyahu said that he had spoken with Deby “about the changes that are taking place in the Arab world with regard to Israel, and this is reflected in the meeting with Sultan Qaboos [in Oman, Jordan], and there will be more visits to Arab countries soon.”

The Chadian president said that dialogue and communication “are the basis for everything.

“We need to put the differences and disagreements aside in order to talk for the good of the peoples,” he said, adding that Israel and Chad “have a common struggle in this century that is marred with terrorism

“Humanity must get rid of this thing, cooperation in this sense is a cure for this,” he said. “I am happy to be in your beautiful country on an official visit,” he said.

Netanyahu expounded on this saying that it was important to “give the peoples what they deserved; food, security, medicine…and technology.”

During the press conference, Deby also highlighted that despite “diplomatic relations being severed in the 1970s, it did not prevent good relations between us, which continued all the time.”

The Israeli prime minister also thanked Deby for “this important step.”

Later in the evening, Deby also met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.

Diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed in 1972. Chad is a Muslim-majority nation in north-central Africa, which at this stage, does not have diplomatic relations with Israel

Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that “this is an historic visit, the first by President of Chad to Israel since the establishment of the state.

“The visit comes against the background of the manifold diplomatic efforts let by Prime Minister Netanyahu in recent years,” Prime Minister’s Office wrote.

Netanyahu added: “This is an additional diplomatic breakthrough . This is an historic and important visit that comes against the background of the efforts we have led. I welcome the President of Chad on his arrival in Israel.”

Netanyahu also told the Cabinet on Sunday that he had met Deby at the recent ceremony in Paris marking the 100th anniversary of the First World War.

在与本杰明·内塔尼亚胡总理会晤后，乍得伊德里斯·德比总统宣布，他希望在国家间外交数十年之后重新建立与犹太国家的关系。

作者：Ilanit Chernick，TPS

在对以色列的历史性访问中，乍得伊德里斯·德比总统周日在与本杰明·内塔尼亚胡总理举行的联合新闻发布会上告诉记者，他“希望恢复两国之间的关系，这样做不会消除巴勒斯坦问题。”

在新闻发布会上，内塔尼亚胡说他曾与德比谈过阿拉伯世界对以色列的变化，这与在苏丹卡布斯（在约旦的阿曼）的会晤有关，并且会有不久将更多地访问阿拉伯国家。“

乍得总统说，对话和沟通“是一切的基础。

他说：“我们需要把分歧和分歧放在一边，以便为各国人民的利益而言。”他补充说，以色列和乍得“在本世纪与恐怖主义有共同的斗争”

“人类必须摆脱这一点，在这个意义上的合作是解决这个问题的方法，”他说。 “我很高兴能够在你的美丽国家进行正式访问，”他说。

内塔尼亚胡阐述了这一说法，“为人民提供他们应得的东西是很重要的;食品，安全，医药……和技术。“

在新闻发布会上，德比还强调，尽管“外交关系在20世纪70年代被切断，但它并没有妨碍我们之间的良好关系，而这种关系一直在持续。”

以色列总理还感谢德比“这一重要举措”。

晚上，德比还会见了以色列总统鲁文里夫林。

1972年，两国的外交关系被切断。乍得是非洲中北部穆斯林占多数的国家，现阶段与以色列没有外交关系。

当天早些时候，总理办公室在一份声明中表示，“这是一次历史性的访问，是自该州成立以来乍得总统首次访问以色列。

“这次访问是在内塔尼亚胡总理近年来多次外交努力的背景下进行的，”总理办公室写道。

内塔尼亚胡补充说：“这是一次额外的外交突破。这是一次历史性的重要访问，是在我们所领导的努力背景下进行的。我欢迎乍得总统抵达以色列。“

内塔尼亚胡周日还告诉内阁，他在最近举行的巴黎庆祝第一次世界大战100周年的仪式上会见了德比。