Britain is determined to "get to the bottom" of the fake passports used by the alleged killers of a top Hamas commander, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Thursday, DPA reported.
Miliband was speaking in London after a meeting between a senior Foreign Office official and the Israeli ambassador, Ron Prosor.
He said Prosor had been told that Britain took the fraudulent use of its passports very seriously. "The integrity of the British passport matters," said Miliband.
He said Israel had been urged to "cooperate fully" in an investigation launched by Britain's Serious and Organized Crime Agency into the affair.
Miliband said he would "pursue the matter further" during a foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels Monday which will also be attended by Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's foreign minister.
Meanwhile in Ireland, Israel's ambassador Zion Evrony said he told the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin that he knew nothing about allegations that Israel was involved in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month.
The authorities in the United Arab Emirates have said 11 faked European passports were used by the hit squad allegedly involved in the murder, of which six carried the names of Britons living in Israel and three bore Irish identities.