EU Med states call for Mideast peace conference
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The foreign ministers of France, Italy,  Spain and seven other European states called on Monday for an  international conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict  and said Israel should make more concessions for peace.
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Senior officials from the United States, Europe and several Arab nations met on Wednesday to work on a plan for ending more than two weeks of Mideast fighting, even as Israeli troops and Hezbollah continued to clash.
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As the Palestinians' main donor and Israel's top commercial partner, Europe could be a major player in pushing to restart the stalled Middle East peace process in the post-Yasser Arafat era.
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Germany's Angela Merkel repeats the EU's demand that a new Palestinian government must recognise Israel.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - The European Union on Monday raised the possibility of sending its monitors back to Gaza's breached border with Egypt and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sought to rally Western support to sideline Hamas.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will call on Wednesday for Middle East states to rein in what he calls the threat from Iran and to help advance peacemaking between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Italian Premier Romano Prodi said on Tuesday that the Mideast peace initiative being mounted by Italy, France and Spain saw an international conference as the end rather than the start of a negotiating process.Comment
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Russia on Wednesday urged Palestinians and Israelis to hold direct talks ahead of a Middle East mediators' meeting in Berlin to discuss how to deal with a new Palestinian coalition between the Islamist Hamas and the mainstream Fatah groups.
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A conference devoted to finding peaceful solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being held on Monday in the Swiss capital, Bern.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan 14 (OneWorld) - Leaders of 25 national Jewish, Muslim, and Christian organizations are urging President George W. Bush to join with the European Union (EU) and the United Nations to make a major new commitment to forge peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Germany, president of the European Union, urged a new Palestinian unity government on Friday to comply with the three conditions set out by the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators.
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The Finnish presidency of the European Union has called for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to explain his apparent admission that the Jewish state has nuclear weapons.
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The European Union led mounting calls on Monday for Israel to end its crippling four-day-old blockade of Gaza as Egypt came under pressure to open the territory's only access to the outside world that bypasses the Jewish state.
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The European Union moved Monday to bolster the Palestinian emergency government, offering political and financial support and urging Israel to follow suit.
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Jordan's King Abdullah II and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called for a stronger international push for lasting Mideast peace and urged for a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear standoff.
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EU foreign ministers are meeting to discuss the new deal on a Palestinian national unity government.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will  call on Wednesday for Middle East states to rein in what he  calls the threat from Iran and to help advance peacemaking  between Israelis and Palestinians.