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Israel urges Canadian PM Carney to drop call for arrest of Netanyahu

AL-Monitor
Oct 21, 2025
FILE PHOTO: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks as he and U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 7, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks as he and U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 7, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo — Evelyn Hockstein

LONDON (Reuters) -The Israeli government urged Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to drop his pledge to honour the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he travelled to the country.

"We believe that Prime Minister Carney should, of course, reconsider this and welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu, the leader of the only Jewish state and democratic country in the Middle East, to Canada," Israeli government spokesperson Shosh Bedrosian told reporters.

(Reporting by Steven Scheer. Editing by Andrew MacAskill)