Netanyahu meets with Austrian Chancellor on backdrop of FPO boycott
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz at the Munich Security Conference.
The two met for the first time against the backdrop of the Israeli boycott of the Freedom Party ministers, members of Kurtz's coalition, because of their continued embroilment in anti-Semitic scandals.
Netanyahu said Kurz told him about "the steps his country is making against anti-Semitism and for the sake of the State of Israel," adding that the chancellor "intends to change Austria's voting patterns at the UN and support Israel's candidacy for the Security Council should we submit it."
Kurz noted in the past that he would do everything to persuade Israel to change its position on the party, which vowed to leave its Nazi past behind.
