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AEJ UK meets EU Middle East Representative

 

3 December 2010

 

Ambassador Marc Otte, the EU’s Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process, met the UK section of the AEJ for a lunchtime meeting on 3 December 2010.

 

He gave the AEJ a sober assessment of the “complex, fluid and dangerous” situation in the Middle East after spending seven years in his current post. He described the EU’s contribution to the faltering peace process both as a “norm-setting” member of the international Quartet and as the major source of aid, trade and state-building projects in the region.

 

He stressed that the EU has repeatedly called on Israel to stop its settlement-building on occupied Palestinian land in order to create the right conditions for the peace process to gain momentum, while the EU also continues to press all Arab groups concerned to end acts of violence and incitement against Israel.

 

Mr Otte’s mandate has been extended until the end of February 2011. A decision is to be taken by then about new arrangements for projecting the EU’s policy on the Middle East, within the EU’s newly-launched External Action Service under Lady Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

 

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