(Cnews-Canada) Jessica Murphy - Israeli President Shimon Peres praised Canada as an "exceptional country" and thanked Canada for its "uninterrupted friendship" from Israel's first day of statehood to the present. "Canada is always positive, never indifferent, never neutral," he said. Gov. Gen. David Johnston - Peres' Canadian equivalent - welcomed the president Monday with an official ceremony, including full military honors and a 21-gun salute, and wrapped up the day with a state dinner.
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