Israel's Netanyahu signals annoyance with EU over Hezbollah


  • World
  • Thursday, 20 Jun 2013

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced exasperation on Thursday with the European Union's reluctance to classify Lebanon's Hezbollah movement as a terrorist group.

"I mean, it's hard to see how you cannot have a consensus on Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation. If Hezbollah isn't a terrorist organisation, I don't know what is a terrorist organisation," he told Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, at the public start of their meeting in his office.

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