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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I do not really have much to add to what has been said during this debate, except to emphasise that the decisions of the Council, also in the light of what Commissioner Patten has said, are entirely focused on the future, and therefore contain a number of urgent reminders in respect of the two main parties involved, that is to say Israel on the one hand and the Palestinian Authority on the other, and are not intended to be a balanced and reasonable way of commemorating, mourning, and perhaps honouring the victims on both sides.
The violence is terrible. So indeed is the spiral of violence. It seemed to us that an urgent call to action was required and that this urgent call needed to be addressed both to the Palestinian Authority and to Israel. However, the operative part of the conclusions contains a plea for an early meeting at which the European Union, the United States, Russia, the Palestinian Authority and Israel sit down at the table to try to find a way out of the spiral of violence and extremism. That is our most fervent hope.
I do not think that it is helpful to try to accuse the Council of favouring one side over the other. That is not the case. We are in favour of peace, and we are trying to do our level best to achieve it. That is what this presidency is doing; the next one will undoubtedly also be doing so, and we can definitely use all your support."@en1
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