Obama to send reps to AIPAC conference before Netanyahu’s visit
US ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, and National Security Adviser Susan Rice will speak at next week’s annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbying group, officials say.
Power and Rice will deliver remarks to the group, a White House spokeswoman and AIPAC spokesman Marshall Wittmann confirmed on Thursday.
The two top official’ speeches are "consistent with the kind of administration participation you've seen in previous AIPAC conferences," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said on Thursday.
"Certainly if it's perceived by some as an effort to demonstrate bipartisan support for the relationship between the US and Israel, that would be great," Earnest added.
The announcement came at the time that President Barack Obama, Vice President Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry will all boycott the AIPAC conference, where administration officials and congressional leaders congregate with supporters of Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been invited by House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner to deliver a speech to Congress on March 3, is scheduled to address the AIPAC conference on Monday, March 2.
Boehner has been criticized by Obama and members of Congress many of whom say the timing of this invitation “appears to be an attempt to promote new sanctions legislation against Iran that could undermine critical negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran."
Obama says Netanyahu’s trip is aimed primarily at derailing a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic.
Iran and the P5+1 group of states – the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia, and Germany – are holding negotiations to narrow remaining differences ahead of a July 1 deadline for the final agreement.
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