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Pensioners Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan (Tomer Appelbaum / BauBau) del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 08:12 19/11/2007 Germany rejects request to reopen talks on reparations deal By Ofer Aderet, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Holocaust survivors, Germany  The German government has rejected a request by Pensioners Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan to reopen the reparations agreement for discussion, the German government's deputy spokesman told reporters in Berlin on Friday. The announcement comes a few days before the visit to Israel of Germany's Federal Minister of Finance Peer Steinbruck. The German government would open talks with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, but only on "amendments in the existing framework," deputy spokesman Thomas Steg said. Advertisement "After a comprehensive examination and talks between the German Finance Ministry and the Israeli minister for pensioners affairs, Rafi Eitan, the government has decided not to accede to the request," he said. Steg also said that Israel had yet to submit an "official request" in the matter. The cabinet has appointed Eitan responsible for dealing with the return of stolen Jewish property and talks on compensation to survivors. The German Federal Press Office was unavailable on Sunday for comment on the change in formulation of the government's position. Steg said the body with which Germany conducted ongoing talks on "the situation of Holocaust survivors" was the Claims Conference. He said the compensation Germany pays to the Claims Conference had gone up a few times over the years. Steinbruck, due to arrive in Israel on Wednesday, is scheduled to meet with Eitan and a number of figures from the umbrella organization of survivors' groups in Israel. However Steg denied that Steinbruck was to meet with Eitan or discuss compensation during his visit. More Jewish World news and features Related articles: Germany says willing to discuss Holocaust survivors' pensions Minister denies asking Germany for more Holocaust reparations Bookmark to del.icio.us The reek of hatred An ex-chief rabbi's recent remarks on Conservative Judaism may spark a legal fight. Natural bombardment A hailstorm set off hundreds of cluster bombs lying in the soil of southern Lebanese soil.   1.   Reparations 04:55  |  Walt 19/11/07   2.   Hard to say 06:12  |  Fadhil 19/11/07   3.   Extortion and blackmail 08:43  |  Natallie Durson 19/11/07   4.   Jews could have killed Hitler 08:43  |  George 19/11/07   5.   Natalie Durson: IMPORTANT 10:00  |  Ruth 19/11/07   6.   I give you my word that .... 10:14  |  Anton 19/11/07   7.   one way genocide 10:24  |  reparations 19/11/07   8.   Press Release from the JCC 10:25  |  Anton 19/11/07   9.   Schnorrers find only an overused copy of "Schindler`s List" 10:45  |  Clickfool 19/11/07   10.   To Anton from Bonn 12:32  |  Shoshana Thomasson 19/11/07   11.   #4 George is wrong 12:47  |  Dav 19/11/07   12.   To Natallie Durson 12:51  |  Shoshana Thomasson 19/11/07   13.   # 12 Shashana Thomasson 14:00  |  Jim 19/11/07   14.   Good. 15:51  |  POP 19/11/07   15.   #12 16:20  |  SP 19/11/07   16.   #7 16:21  |  SP 19/11/07   17.   industry shares plummet 16:35  |  edgar 19/11/07   18.   Finally, slowly, Germany is getting its barrings back 16:41  |  Argentine 19/11/07   19.   THERE MAY BE SOME LIGHT AT THE END 16:47  |  Robert 19/11/07   20.   No bazaar 16:49  |  kraut 19/11/07   21.   Germany has big dirty hands 17:08  |  Jonathan S 19/11/07   22.   Germany paid more for war criminals 17:09  |  Jonathan S 19/11/07   23.   GERMANY HAS PAID MORE THAN ENOUGH... LET GOVERNMENT RELEASE FUNDS 17:18  |  Marcel 19/11/07   24.   George the is a problem 17:26  |  How? 19/11/07   25.   Ruth: Hopefully that sympathy that you have 17:30  |  Ray 19/11/07   26.   SP No. 15 17:37  |  Shoshana Thomasson 19/11/07   27.   #21 Jonathan 17:40  |  kraut 19/11/07   28.   #26 Shoshana 18:10  |  SP 19/11/07   29.   Jim, 200 years from now is a very long time 18:20  |  Shoshana Thomasson 19/11/07   30.   swindlers list. or extortionist list. pick your poison 18:35  |  socal maverick 19/11/07   31.   Holocaust survivor: Where did the $ 200 bilion go? 18:43  |  Eitan Armbruster 19/11/07   32.   Austrian Jews Robbed of Properties in E. Germany 18:44  |  Elly 19/11/07   33.   #3 Natalie Durson / Antisemite. Jewgeld? Free Speach 18:47  |  Albert 19/11/07   34.   To Joe #13 Children of Survivors get NOTHING! 18:55  |  Jack Garbuz 19/11/07   35.   We hand an uncle in Austria who... 18:58  |  Jack Garbuz 19/11/07   36.   #29 Shoshanna 19:13  |  Jim 19/11/07   37.   #34 Jack Garbuz 19:26  |  Jim 19/11/07   38.   #35 Jack Garbuz 19:35  |  kraut 19/11/07   39.   # 25 Ray "...very similar to germany really." 20:00  |  Jim 19/11/07   40.   To Jim No. 39 21:27  |  Shoshana Thomasson 19/11/07   41.   Bravo 22:15  |  john bull 19/11/07   42.   #40 Shoshana Thomasson 01:33  |  Boycott 20/11/07   43.   Any Former SS Officers Receiving German Pensions Over Here? 09:37  |  Yosemite 20/11/07

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