Believer in miracles
April 20th, 2009, 10:10 AM
http://www.ennaharonline.com/en/news/980.html
A meeting is scheduled Thursday in Brussels to revive the Union for the Mediterranean (UPM), frozen since the war in Ghaza, according to a European source in Cairo.
Organized at the initiative of Javier Solana, the chief diplomat of the EU, this informal meeting will attempt to gather again around the table European partners, Arabs and Israeli.
If the meeting of 23 April is held normally, said the European source, the meeting could be held early in May, allowing the official melting of Euro-Mediterranean projects.
Launched with great fanfare in Paris in July 2008 by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy, the UMP was a union project out of the rut the process of Euro-Mediterranean dialogue called ‘Barcelona,’ born in 1995.
France and Spain, who could succeed to co-chair in a year, expressed late in March in favour of a quick revival of the MFU. Egypt, co-chair on the south side of the Mediterranean, coordinates with many difficulties, the Arab members of the UPM.
A meeting is scheduled Thursday in Brussels to revive the Union for the Mediterranean (UPM), frozen since the war in Ghaza, according to a European source in Cairo.
Organized at the initiative of Javier Solana, the chief diplomat of the EU, this informal meeting will attempt to gather again around the table European partners, Arabs and Israeli.
If the meeting of 23 April is held normally, said the European source, the meeting could be held early in May, allowing the official melting of Euro-Mediterranean projects.
Launched with great fanfare in Paris in July 2008 by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy, the UMP was a union project out of the rut the process of Euro-Mediterranean dialogue called ‘Barcelona,’ born in 1995.
France and Spain, who could succeed to co-chair in a year, expressed late in March in favour of a quick revival of the MFU. Egypt, co-chair on the south side of the Mediterranean, coordinates with many difficulties, the Arab members of the UPM.