Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed on Thursday in their telephone conversation recent statements of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov voiced in an interview with Italian media, the press office of the Israeli PM said in a statement on Thursday, Trend reports citing TASS.
According to the statement, "Bennett and Putin discussed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statements" during their telephone conversation.
"The prime minister has accepted Putin’s apologies for Lavrov’s words and thanked the president for explaining his attitude toward Jewish people and the commemoration of Holocaust victims," the statement reads.