Brussels, 07/12/2009 (Agence Europe) - The Foreign Affairs Ministers of the EU, who are "seriously concerned" by the lack of progress in the Middle Eastern Peace Process, will take the opportunity of the Foreign Affairs Council this Tuesday to call for the "urgent resumption" of peace talks with a view to a solution based on two States- Israel and an independent, democratic viable Palestinian State- living side by side in peace and security. However, according to a draft text which was reworked by Coreper on Monday morning, there will no longer be any question of East Jerusalem as the capital of this Palestinian State, as was posited by an initial version of the text proposed last week by the Swedish Presidency (EUROPE 10034). In another paragraph of the draft text, on the other hand, the Twenty-Seven states that they are "deeply concerned" by the situation in East Jerusalem and reiterated that they "never recognized" the annexation of this part of the city. A negotiated solution must be found to the problem of the status of Jerusalem "as the future capital of two states", read Monday's draft text, which was to be put to the ministers this Tuesday 8 December. The diplomats did not rule out the possibility that the text may be amended further during the ministerial debate. The Luxembourg Foreign Minister, Jean Asselborn, said on Monday that East Jerusalem "did not belong to Israel". "We all acknowledge that East Jerusalem is occupied. And if it is occupied, then it does not belong to Israel", he said. His Italian counterpart, Franco Frattini, said that the issue of Jerusalem should not be dealt with "unilaterally", but that it should be negotiated. (H.B./trans.fl)