Misschien kan hij dan ook een krachtig geluid laten horen wat betreft de Durban follow-up conferentie in april, die weer op een anti-Israel haatfestijn dreigt uit te lopen. De concept teksten voor de algemene verklaring, waarin Israel onder andere een racistische apartheidsstaat wordt genoemd en van genocide wordt beschuldigd, dienen grondig gewijzigd te worden, wil de EU legitimiteit aan deze conferentie verlenen.
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The Jerusalem Post
Dec 8, 2008 12:10 | Updated Dec 8, 2008 12:59
The Jerusalem Post
Dec 8, 2008 12:10 | Updated Dec 8, 2008 12:59
EU presidency to boost ties with Israel
By AP
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728104516&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The Czech government says it wants to boost the European Union's ties with Israel once it assumes the bloc's presidency in January.
Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg says Prague will ask the EU's 27 countries to agree to stepping up ties with Israel.
The Palestinians oppose any EU effort to widen relations with Israel in political, economic, scientific, security, health and other spheres. They say Israel should do more to ease the humanitarian crisis in their areas.
Schwarzenberg says increasing relations were "not only in the interest of Israel but also very much in the interest of the Palestinian people."
The Czechs hold the EU presidency in the first half of 2009.
By AP
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1228728104516&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The Czech government says it wants to boost the European Union's ties with Israel once it assumes the bloc's presidency in January.
Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg says Prague will ask the EU's 27 countries to agree to stepping up ties with Israel.
The Palestinians oppose any EU effort to widen relations with Israel in political, economic, scientific, security, health and other spheres. They say Israel should do more to ease the humanitarian crisis in their areas.
Schwarzenberg says increasing relations were "not only in the interest of Israel but also very much in the interest of the Palestinian people."
The Czechs hold the EU presidency in the first half of 2009.
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