RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, the EU and along with Egypt and
Jordan have issued a statement to revitalize the Palestinian-Israeli peace
process, state news SPA reported on Tuesday.
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Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Saudi
foreign minister, co-chaired a meeting that also including the Ahmed Aboul
Gheit, the secretary-general of the Arab League; Josep Borrell, EU’s high
representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; Ayman Safadi, deputy
prime minister and foreign minister of Jordan; Sameh Shoukry, Egypt’s foreign
minister.
The meeting was attended by representatives from nearly 70
countries and international organizations and included around 50 speakers from
diverse nations.
The meeting sought to produce a Peace Supporting Package
that “will maximize peace dividends for the Palestinians and Israelis once they
reach a peace agreement,” report noted.
“It seeks to produce detailed programs and contributions,
conditional upon achieving a final status agreement, that will support the
peace, and ensure that all peoples of the region reap its benefits. The effort
seeks to ensure that Peace Day is a day of opportunity and promise, thus
incentivizing earnest efforts to reach it.”
The statement noted that Israeli-Palestinian peace continued
to be elusive since the peace process was launched in Madrid in 1991 as signed
agreements, including the Oslo accords, have not been fully honored.
“The occupation continues and with it come a number of
complications and difficulties that lead the parties further away from a
possible agreement. The situation on the ground is proving to be untenable and
the status quo is becoming impossible to accept, all the more in an
international situation plagued with conflicts. Ignoring the need to revitalize
the peace process is neither helpful to the parties nor to the present and
future of the Middle East.”
The renewed effort is based on the urgent need to preserve
the Two State Solution ensuring a viable sovereign independent and contiguous
Palestinian state based on the June 4, 1967 lines, the SPA report added.
“The need to revitalize a meaningful peace process to
achieve the Two State Solution, in accordance with international law, UNSC
resolutions, the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and the 2013 EU peace supporting
offer cannot be overemphasized. The alternative is further deterioration that
will threaten regional and international security,” the statement added.
“The Peace Day Effort builds, among others, on the Arab
Peace Initiative (API), which was adopted by the Arab States to lay out their
vision for a comprehensive regional peace and its terms and requirements.
Predicated on the full withdrawal from all Palestinian and Arab territories
occupied since 1967 in exchange for full normalization, the API was later
endorsed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and welcomed by the
European Union and the United Nations.
“The Peace Day Effort also builds on the 2013 EU offer to
provide an “unprecedented package of political, security and economic support”
to both parties in the context of a final status agreement.”
The conveners also launched working groups charged with
elaborating the components of the comprehensive Peace Supporting Package, and
all participants were invited to contribute to the working groups.
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