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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9718

6 August 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/middle east
President Pöttering to visit Syria and Lebanon

Brussels, 05/08/2008 (Agence Europe) - Hans-Gert Pöttering, the president of the European Parliament, will be making an official visit to Lebanon and Syria from 6-12 August.

In view of this visit, Hans-Gert Pöttering, who is also president of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA - Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean) made the following declaration, “I hope that this visit reaffirms the political commitment of the European Parliament to peace in the Middle East...