| Author (Person) | Rettman, Andrew |
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| Series Title | EUObserver |
| Series Details | 15.6.11 |
| Publication Date | 15/06/2011 |
| Content Type | News |
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EUObserver reported that Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, launched an initiative in June 2011 to avert a potentially explosive dispute at the UN in September 2011. The EU official in a letter over the weekend said the Quartet - the EU, Russia, the UN and the US - should hold a high-level meeting before the summer which spells out that Israel must pull back to its 1967 borders in return for security guarantees from the Palestinian side. The move is designed to give Palestinians an incentive to put aside plans to seek full UN recognition in September 2011, a move which could split the EU into pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian camps and damage EU-US relations. Nevertheless, in July 2011, EUObserver reported Palestinian leaders declaring that the EU-led attempt to revive Arab-Israeli peace talks had failed, leading them to go full-speed ahead for UN recognition instead. |
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| Source Link | http://euobserver.com/9/32488 |
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| Countries / Regions | Europe, Middle East |
