EU calls lifting siege imposed on Palestinians, resort to negotiations

The European Union has called for ending the siege imposed by Israel on the Palestinian people and to resort to negotiations, unconditionally.

In a message read by the French Ambassador in Amman who inaugurated an exposition on the Palestinian heritage organized by UNESCO in collaboration with the French Embassy on the occasion of the World Day in solidarity with the Palestinian people, the European Union stressed the need of founding an independent Palestinian state and its commitment to a just and comprehensive solution in the region.

The EU expressed regret over the heavy losses inflicted on the Palestinian economy as a result of the siege imposed on the Palestinian cities and villages.

To this effect, and on this occasion, the council of the Jordanian trade unionists held a mass rally in solidarity with the Palestinian people in which the chairman of the trade unions council who is also the chairman of the Agronomists Union in Jordan Abdul Hadi al-Fallahat, Muhammad al-Nahas as a representative for the higher co-ordination committee of the Jordanian national parties; and Jamil Abu Bakir of the Islamic labor front all stressed the stand of Jordanian people's activists, commission, parties and trade unions in support of the Palestinian people in their defense of their lands and holy places.

The speakers also stressed the stand of Jordan's people in one " trench" with the Palestinians in their fight, stressing the importance of world solidarity with those Palestinians until they get back their freedom and maintain self Ð determination and establish their own independent state on their native soil with Jerusalem as a capital..

The speakers called on the Arab and Islamic states to continue supporting the steadfastness of the Palestinian people by all means until their objectives to deter repression are met.