Officials from France, Holland, Norway and Canada reportedly boycotted an international police commissioner’s conference in Israel this week because the proceedings were being held in predominantly Arab eastern Jerusalem. England was reported to have lowered the level of its delegation because the conference included a tour of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War. A foreign ministry official said Israel would protest to those governments if it became evident that the boycott was political.
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