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"Mr President, I shall be very brief. All I can say is that I, and the Presidency as a whole, support everything Mr Solana has said in response to today’s debate in Parliament.
I would like to take this opportunity to make two observations. The first is with regard to the meeting that will take place tomorrow. I believe that we can allow ourselves to feel a degree of satisfaction, insofar as it is no coincidence that this meeting is to take place in the capital of the country which currently holds the Presidency of the European Union. This meeting is taking place on the EU’s, and the Presidency’s initiative, and therefore will be the most important event that has taken place until now with a view to achieving peace, and presents the only real opportunity to bring together all the major players, in one location, to break this vicious circle of violence. We hope that all present will share the Presidency’s, and, naturally, the whole Union’s, determination to see this succeed, a determination that has been expressed here in Parliament, with whose support a final effort will be made at tomorrow’s meeting.
The second observation I would like to make, Mr President, refers to the need, that many honourable Members and leaders of political groups have expressed, for us to review our Association Agreement with Israel, in other words, that we should use our Association Agreement with Israel as an instrument. I would like to say emphatically that the Presidency totally agrees with this approach and this very morning the Spanish Foreign Minister, Mr Piqué, announced that he intends, in agreement with the Commission, to call on the Association Council to carry out a review of our relations with Israel.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have to tell you, however, that for any steps to be taken within the Association Agreement, we need unanimity from the Council. Put simply, and as you are all aware, these measures do not only depend on the determination of the Commission or the Presidency-in-Office, but on that of every Member State of the European Union. We are already well aware of this Parliament’s determination. I believe that this will also be reflected in the resolution that will be approved tomorrow and I hope that this will act as a wake-up call to the conscience of every EU government."@en1
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