The Party of European Socialists is promoting a leading role for the EU in settling the crisis in the Middle East
Promoting a leading role for the EU and a rapid cease-fire in the region, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (PES President) discusses on a regular basis with PES Foreign Affairs Ministers: Erkki Tuomioja from Finland's EU Presidency; Massimo D'Alema, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs; Frank Walter Steinmeyer, German Minister for Foreign Affairs and Jean Asselborn, Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs from Luxembourg and coordinator of PES Foreign Affairs Ministers Network.
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and the Ministers are exchanging views on the crisis between Israel and Lebanon examining, in particular, prospects for the international community's role, the future commitment to the reconstruction of Lebanon and sustainable conditions for peace in the region with rapid political solution to the current conflicts.
PES in action:
- Politics is Presence: New PES Initiative in Middle East
, 11 September 2006 - EU must put momentum into foreign ministers agreement on reviving Middle East peace process, 5 September 2006
- PES President backs U.N. intervention in Middle East conflict, 18 July 2006
- PES calls on UN & Israeli Labour Party, 3 August 2006
PES Foreign Ministers in action:
- Interview from Massimo D'Alema in Le Monde , 28 July 2006 (French only)
- Address by Minister D'Alema to the Senate and the Italian Chamber , 31 July 2006
- Interview from Frank Steinmeier by ZDF , 9 August 2006 (French only)
- Interview from Frank Steinmeier by ARD , 18 August 2006
- Resolution of the SPD Presidium on the Middle East Conflict , 18 August 2006
- Interview from Jean Asselborn by Deutschlandfunk , 24 July 2006 (German only)
EU institutions:
- Statement by the Conference of Presidents of the Political Groups of the European Parliament , 20 July 2006
- EU Presidency: statement on Lebanon , 12 August 2006
- Possibility for the EU to play a key role in the Middle Eastern conflict , 18 August 2006
United Nations:
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 , 11 August 2006
