Solana heads for the ME today, EU condemns Israel's settlers attacks
The Presidium of the European Union on Sunday strongly condemned the attacks committed by the Israeli settlers and resulted in killing three Palestinians from one family including an infant, near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
The Belgium presidency of the EU said in a statement circulated on Sunday that " the security and safety of civilians should be ensured." Worthy mentioning that the foreign ministers of the European Union warned in the mid of the current month from the grave conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories and called for the immediate deployment of UN observers.
On the other hand, the higher representative of the EU for the foreign policy Javier Solana will start a tour on the ME region that will last for four days.
The spokesman for Solana said Solana will discuss during his tour, with high ranking officials in the region the implementation of the Mitchell package which states to halt what is called violence, to work for complete freezing of the Israeli settling process and resuming the Israeli- Palestinian negotiations.
Solana's tour will cover each of Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian territories and Israel.
