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Sat, June 18, 2011 Miscellanea dagli incontri della Ashton Ashton met with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and President Abbas Friday in the West Bank after she met with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Jerusalem. "the Palestinian position was to resume the peace process" "We are calling on the European Union to help us on the question of moving the United Nations to accept Palestine on the basis of the 1967 borders," Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat was quoted as saying by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA in the AFP report. During their meeting, Lieberman threatened that Israel will renounce past agreements, "The unilateral move at the UN is the end of the Oslo Accords and would be a violation of all agreements that we have signed until now," Lieberman said. "Israel would not be obligated to the agreements that it has signed with the Palestinians over the past 18 years." Earlier this week, Ashton called for the urgent convening of the Middle East Quartet in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. In the letter, Ashton expressed concern for the regimes that "are holding on to power, spreading insecurity and instability" across the Arab world. "This situation makes it even more urgent to find a lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," Ashton added. "Unfortunately, we have not seen any progress on that front." "it is more urgent than ever to engage in meaningful negotiations and move the peace process forward." In an apparent reference to Palestinian efforts at the UN, Ashton wrote: "This is no time for unilateral moves on either side, since this could lead to escalation. This is in nobody's interest, least of all that of the Israeli and Palestinian people who want the opportunity for safety and prosperity for their families."
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