Brussels, 24/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - On 23 April, President Prodi welcomed news of the agreement concerning the formation of the new cabinet in the Palestinian Authority. We now wait its rapid submission to the Palestinian Legislative Council, in the hope of it receiving parliamentary assent and assuming its duties as quickly as possible, he said in a statement. According to Romano Prodi, this is a major step forward so that the Palestinian Authority may continue the reforms necessary to build an administration that will lay the foundations of a viable Palestinian state. The Commission President concluded: the European Commission now waits for the road map for peace, as agreed last December by the Quartet of the EU, United States, UN and Russia, to be presented to the partners in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, in order for them to implement it without delay. The people of Israel and the Palestinian Territories have already waited too long for peace: there is no more time to loose.