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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9008

19 August 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/middle east
Javier Solana to visit region soon - assurances of EU support for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and West Bank

Brussels, 18/08/2005 (Agence Europe) - While condemning the attack against Palestinian civilians in the Jewish settlement of Shiloh in the West Bank (a settlement opened fire on Wednesday on a group of workers and killed three of them) in an attack described as an act of terrorism by Ariel Sharon, the CFSP High Representative Javier Solana welcomed in a declaration the restraint displayed and the “political leadership shown by Israel and the Palestinian authorities in the first few days...