[WCUSP] Fwd: [womeninblack] The European Union and the International Community should immediately recognize the new Palestinian Government

[yvonne simmons]

--- lieve snellings <lieve.snellings at pandora.be>
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> From: "lieve snellings" <lieve.snellings at pandora.be>
> To: <womeninblack at listas.nodo50.org>
> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:10:09 +0100
> Subject: [womeninblack] The European Union and the
> International Community
> 	should immediately recognize the new Palestinian
> Government
> 
>  
> PRESS RELEASE
> 
> 
> 
> Luisa Morgantini
> 
> Vice-President of the European Parliament
> 
> 
> 
> The European Union and the International Community
> should immediately recognize the new Palestinian
> Government
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Saturday , the new Government of National Unity will
> be presented in front of the Palestinian Legislative
> Council.
> 
> "This is an extraordinary event, since it
> demonstrates the accountability of the Palestinian
> leadership, who, face to the danger of a civil war,
> has chosen to join and put the interest of
> Palestinian people before the interests of the
> different political groups.  Surely, this result has
> been possible thanks also to the invaluable
> contribution of the Palestinian political prisoners,
> including members of Hamas, Fatah and other
> political parties in primis Marwan Barghouti but
> also to the palestinian people who refuse to be
> sqeezed between Hamas and Fatah", comments Luisa
> Morgantini, Vice-President of the European
> Parliament. 
> 
> 
> 
> "The unity and the principles agreed for the
> programme of the new government are very important.
> Hamas, who since long has been respecting a
> cease-fire, has recognized the Oslo Agreements,
> which foreseen the existence of the State of
> Palestine based on 1967's borders and this implies
> an implicit recognition of  the state of Israel as
> well.
> 
> The above-mentioned elements should be sufficient
> for the European Union to immediately recognize the
> new Palestinian Government, putting and end to the
> isolation of the government freely elected by the
> Palestinian people", explains Ms. Morgantini. 
> 
> "There is no time to lose. Europe should express its
> independence from USA's influence and it should
> start to build alliances with the actors interested
> in restore not only dialogue but also negotiations.
> This should mean stating a path aimed at reaching a
> resolving agreement about the Israeli-Palestinian
> conflict, which realise the two states two peoples
> solution and Jerusalem as a shared capital town".
> 
> "I believe that the Italian Government should
> immediately express, even unilaterally, its
> commitment recognizing the Palestinian Government. 
> 
> An international conference has to be convened as
> soon as possible, taking into account the proposals
> of 2002's Arab initiative in Beirut, during which
> the Arab world offered the full political
> recognition of the State of Israel ".
> 
> 
> 
> "It's now Israel's turn to give a signal of its
> desire of peace and respect onf international
> legality.  It is necessary that Israel stops
> military actions and arrests in the Occupied
> Palestinian Territories. It is also important to put
> through negotiations for the liberation of the
> Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and of the Palestinian
> political prisoners, to remove check-points and to
> guarantee freedom of movement to the Palestinian
> people in Gaza and in the West Bank,"Ms. Morgantini
> concludes.
> 
> 
> 
> Further information:
> 
> Luisa Morgantini
> 
> 0039 06 69950217
> 
> Mobile: 0039 348 3921465
> 
> e-mail: luisa.morgantini at europarl.europa.eu 
> 
> 
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