The European Union is urging the US to not go it alone in any effort to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians and warns that doing so would end in failure.
“Any framework for negotiations must be multilateral and must involve all players — all partners — that are essential to this process. A process without one or the other would simply not work, would simply not be realistic,” EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says.
“Nothing without the United States, nothing with the United States alone,” Mogherini tells reporters in Brussels.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) is welcomed by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini prior to attend a EU foreign affairs council at the European Council in Brussels, January 22, 2018. (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)
Her comments come at an emergency meeting of an international committee coordinating Palestinian development aid. Government ministers from Israel and Egypt, as well as the Palestinian Authority prime minister and a US senior official are attending the talks, to be chaired by Norway.
The meeting is the first of its kind since US President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, breaking with an international consensus that the holy city’s status should be resolved in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
— AP
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