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(EU) EP/MIDDLE EAST: Mr Solana asserts need to move forward, at same time and without delay, on three fronts: security, restructuring and political process - for an in-depth reform of Palestinian Authority

Strasbourg, 15/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - Before the European Parliament, the EU High Representative for CFSP, Javier Solana, returned to the difficulties that had to be overcome to lift the siege on the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and to gain the free movement of Yasser Arafat. We are in the process of working everyday on the ground and in the capitals, he said while raising the co-operation within the Quartet. Continuing: it now concerns helping the Palestinian Authority rebound to...