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Boris Johnson made a “brief drop-in” to a gathering of International Secretary Dominic Raab and President Trump’s son-in-law, the prime minister’s spokesman mentioned.
Jared Kushner, who’s a senior White Home advisor, is married to Ivanka Trump, who additionally acts as an advisor in her father’s administration.
Mr Kushner heads Mr Trump’s response to the Center East battle and has simply returned from the area.
Downing Avenue mentioned the assembly targeted on the Center East.
The prime minister’s spokesman was questioned about whether or not Mr Johnson was proper to satisfy a member of Mr Trump’s household so near the US presidential election, which can happen in November.
“It was particularly a dialogue concerning the Center East peace course of, which I feel all of us would agree it can be crucial we proceed to be totally engaged in that work,” the spokesman mentioned.
In an announcement, International Workplace mentioned: “The overseas secretary up to date Mr Kushner on his latest go to to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and his encouragement of a return to cooperation between the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships, as a primary step on the highway to a renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace course of.
“The prime minister and overseas secretary have been clear about their dedication to a negotiated two state resolution.”
Requested whether or not the Prime Minister can be “endorsing” Mr Trump within the November election, the prime minister’s spokesman mentioned: “The long-standing place within the UK is that elections are a matter for the electors of that exact nation.”
Conversations with the US a few post-Brexit commerce deal are ongoing.
Mr Kushner is making a go to to London having been a part of a high-level Israeli delegation to the United Arab Emirates on the primary direct industrial passenger flight between the 2 nations.
Woody Johnson, the US ambassador to the UK, tweeted that he had met Mr Kushner for breakfast at his residence close to London’s Regent’s Park.
“Nice to have Jared Kushner and workforce at Winfield Home for breakfast – congratulations on transferring peace & prosperity ahead within the Center East!” he wrote.