WEST BANK: EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF JAVIER SOLANA MEETS WITH PALESTINIAN OFFICIALS IN RAMALLAH; CONDEMN DEADLY SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON A SHOPPING MALL IN ISRAELI COASTAL TOWN OF NETANYA KILLED 4 PEOPLE

Record ID: 566155

  • Title: WEST BANK: EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF JAVIER SOLANA MEETS WITH PALESTINIAN OFFICIALS IN RAMALLAH; CONDEMN DEADLY SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON A SHOPPING MALL IN ISRAELI COASTAL TOWN OF NETANYA KILLED 4 PEOPLE
  • Date: 13th July 2005
  • Summary: (BN10) RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (JULY 13, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. PAN: CONVOY OF EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF JAVIER SOLANA ARRIVING AT COMPOUND TO MEET PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS (2 SHOTS) 0.18 2. ABBAS AND SOLANA MEETING 0.24 3. VARIOUS OF MEETING (2 SHOTS) 0.30 4. VARIOUS OF JOURNALISTS AWAITING NEWS CONFERENCE WITH PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER AHMED QURIE AND JAVIER SOLANA, EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF 0.41 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) AHMED QURIE, PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER, SAYING: "These acts are against the Palestinian people. We reaffirm to our friend Solana and we reaffirm to you and to the entire world that we condemn strongly such actions (referring to the suicide attack). We also condemn strongly and forcefully and we totally refuse the actions that Israel committed and is continuing to do around Jerusalem in particular and in the rest of the West Bank, whether by enlarging or expanding the settlements or in continuing to build the separation apartheid wall." 1.15 6. WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE 1.23 7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JAVIER SOLANA, EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF, SAYING: "I think that it was not an act only against two people from Israel, it was also an act against the Palestinian authorities and I think the Palestinian Authority taken good note of that. The people who did that criminal act are people who don't want disengagement to take place who don't want the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people to be free and they are not part of the process in which the majority of the people of goodwill, the majority of the people in the international community are engaged." (QUALITY AS INCOMING) 1.59 8. WS: NEWS CONFERENCE 2.06 9. PALESTINIAN AND EUROPEAN UNION FLAGS FLYING 2.11 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA71PAE51HK5LMIAQ6TPNZKG7WO
  • Story Text: Solana meets with Palestinian officials on visit to
    Ramallah.


    European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana
    met with Palestinian officials in the West Bank city of
    Ramallah on Wednesday (July 13, 2005), one day after
    a deadly suicide bomb attack on a shopping mall in the
    Israeli coastal town of Netanya.

    Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie condemned the
    suicide bombing saying that such acts were against the
    interests of Palestinians.

    "These acts are against the Palestinian people. We
    reaffirm to our friend Solana and we reaffirm to you and to
    the entire world that we condemn strongly such actions,"
    Qurie said during a joint news conference in Ramallah.

    Solana also condemned the bombing saying that it was an
    act both against Israel and against the Palestinian people
    by those who are seeking to derail the peace process.

    "I think that it was not an act only against two people
    from Israel, it was also an act against the Palestinian
    authorities and I think the Palestinian Authority taken
    good note of that. The people who did that criminal act are
    people who don't want disengagement to take place who don't
    want the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people
    to be free and they are not part of the process in which
    the majority of the people of goodwill, the majority of the
    people in the international community are engaged," Solana
    said.

    The bombing on Tuesday (July 12), which killed two teenage
    girls and two women outside a shopping mall in the
    coastal city of Netanya, drew a swift Israeli military
    response.

    Returning to a city it had handed over to Palestinian
    security control four months ago, the Israeli army swept
    into Tulkarm in an offensive it said would last several
    days.

    Solana later met with Palestinian President Mahmoud
    Abbas, who, on Tuesday evening (July 12), also condemned
    what he called an "idiotic" suicide bombing and warned that
    those responsible would be punished.

    Abbas told reporters that it was a crime against the
    Palestinian people and those who were behind it were
    working against the Palestinian people's interest and must
    be punished.

    Solana met earlier in the week with Israeli officials
    hoping to encourage an upcoming Israeli withdrawal from the
    Gaza Strip - a move now endangered by the fresh flare-up of
    violence.


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