MPs from Europe and the Arab world call for urgent aid for Palestinian people

Parliamentarians from around the Mediterranean called on 7 June 2006 for the swift creation of the planned international fund to provide aid to the Palestinian people. The European Commission will present a blueprint for this fund later in June to EU Foreign Ministers. Some members of the Political Committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, meeting in Brussels, argued that the decision to suspend direct aid to the Palestinian Authority had been taken too hastily.