{"id":206476,"date":"2014-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=206476"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:11:20","slug":"auto-insert-206476","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-206476\/","title":{"rendered":"EU High Rep. Mogherini’s remarks after EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting – EU press release\/Non-UN document (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brussels, 17\/11\/2014 
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\nRemarks by the HR\/VP 
\nREMARKS\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Remarks by High Representative Federica Mogherini
\nafter today's meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Questions and answers<\/strong><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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1- Question sur l’hypothèse d’un plan de sanctions contre Israël.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Il n'y a pas de plan de ce type. J'ai vu un article d'Haaretz qui fait référence à un document de travail  et le publie. Il s'agit apparemment d'un document de travail interne demandé par les États membres il y a quelques temps, je dirais durant le mandat qui a précédé le mien, mais qui ne forme qu'une hypothèse de travail technique. Ce n'était pas sur la table des ministres aujourd'hui. Ce n'était pas du tout au cœur de notre discussion. Le cœur de notre discussion d'aujourd'hui sur le Moyen Orient était plutôt de voir comment engager un processus positif avec les Israéliens et les Palestiniens pour relancer un processus de paix, et non d'isoler ou sanctionner quoique ce soit, mais, au contraire, de remotiver vers le chemin du dialogue et de la paix.<\/p><\/div>\n

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4- On MEPP and full implementation of existing legislation of settlement products.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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On the Middle East Peace Process, it means that we will continue to implement the policies that were agreed on, but as I explained, the core of our worries and of our efforts is and will be not to react to negative steps, but to engage in positive processes and the worrying situation is, that the less we have political positive processes, the more we risk to have negative steps on the ground, so we have to break this vicious circle with some positive elements that at the moment are desperately lacking.<\/p><\/div>\n

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5- Sur la Reconnaissance d'un Etat Palestinien<\/strong>.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nous avons commencé à discuter de cela même si cela relève bien sûr de la compétence des Etats Membres; sur ce point, la responsabilité n'est pas la mienne. Mais nous avons partagé la nécessité d'au moins échanger, entre nous, entre les ministres, les informations sur les démarches de parlements nationaux, les éléments de réactions des gouvernements à ce sujet et commencer à donner, non pas des réponses communes mais de partager les grandes lignes d'action sur ce sujet.<\/p><\/div>\n

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6- Sur les missions EUBAM Rafah\/EUPOL COPPS.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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J'ai  visité les missions quand j'étais dans la région il y a une semaine. Il ne s'agit pas d'une question de temps, je ne dirais même pas de une question de ressources, parce que je pense que sur ce domaine, les Etats-Membres  seraient prêts à donner les ressources humaines et financières qu'il faut. Le problème principal, ce sont les conditions politiques sur le terrain. Il faut que les points de passage soient contrôlés avec la coopération des autorités palestiniennes. Si nous n'avons pas l'Autorité Palestinienne sur place capable de contrôler les points de passage, ce sera difficile pour une mission européenne de travailler sur le terrain. Dans mes conversations, que ce soit en Israël ou avec les Palestiniens, c'est  le point le plus délicat: à savoir, les conditions politiques, et ce même avant la sécurité, sur place, pour que cela puisse se passer avec un interlocuteur légitime, crédible et efficace sur le terrain à Gaza.<\/p><\/div>\n

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8- On the recognition of the Palestinian state<\/strong>, I stated already several times, including in Israel and in Palestine, that to me the real point is not so much the recognition of a Palestinian state, but what can we usefully do to have a Palestinian state, because you can have the recognition in several Member States without things changing radically and dramatically on the ground.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Or, on the contrary, you could have a wave of pressure that could lead to some positive results, or not, depending on the kind of process that is open or not. So again, I think that our main focus should be, and as a European focus for sure, because this does not lie in the European Union capacity to recognise a State so, it's for the Member States to take the decisions, but to me the main focus is what kind of steps forward do we can put in place forgetting to having a Palestinian state living next to an Israeli State in peace and security. What is the road map of political actions that we manage to put in place for reaching the objective? The objective is not the recognition of the Palestinian State. The objective is the Palestinian state. And we should not mix the two levels but this is a discussion that for sure will be ongoing also in the format of the ministerial meeting because as I said it's a matter of national decisions but we decided that also that as it is a matter that concerns us all, we will try to share a vision and coordinate a bit already from now.<\/p><\/div>\n

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FOR FURTHER DETAILS:<\/p><\/div>\n

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Catherine Ray: +32 498 96 99 21 – +32 2 296 99 21 –  <\/span>Catherine.Ray@ec.europa.eu<\/a> – <\/span>@CatherineEUspox<\/a> 
\nMaja Kocijancic: +32 498 984 425 – +32 2 298 65 70 – <\/span>Maja.Kocijancic@ec.europa.eu<\/a> – <\/span>@MajaEUspox<\/a> 
\nNabila Massrali: +32 460 75 41 75 –  <\/span>Nabila.Massrali@ec.europa.eu<\/a> 
\nEamonn Prendergast: +32 460 75 32 93 – <\/span>Eamonn.Prendergast@ec.europa.eu<\/a> 
\nAnca Paduraru: +32 498 966 430 – <\/span>Anca.Paduraru@ec.europa.eu<\/a> 
\nIrina Novakova: +32 498 957 517 – <\/span>Irina.Novakova@ec.europa.eu<\/a> 
\nSharon Zarb: +32 2 460 792 256 – <\/span>Sharon.Zarb@ec.europa.eu<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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