{"id":193920,"date":"2007-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=193920"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:42:36","slug":"auto-insert-193920","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-193920\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Council of Ministers President to meet with Olmert, Perez and Abbas &#8211; EU press release\/Non-UN document"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>Lu&#237;s Amado with Olmert, Perez and Abbas in the Middle East<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:2pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">On Monday the 10th, the President of the Council of Ministers of the European Union, Lu&#237;s Amado, will convene with the Israeli Prime Minister and, later on, with the Palestinian President. On this day, a meeting between Ehud Olmert and Mahmud Abbas on the Middle East peace process is also foreseen. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, who at the moment is President-in-Office of the Council of Ministers of the European Union, arrived on Sunday at Tel Aviv for a two-day visit to Israel and Palestine, with the objective of showing the engagement of the 27 in the peace process of the Middle East. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">On Monday Lu&#237;s Amado will meet, at 9:00 local time (two more than Lisbon time), in Tel Aviv, with Israeli Vice-Prime-Minister and Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, leaving after for Jerusalem, for a working meeting with Vice-Prime-Minister Haim Ramon. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">At noon Lu&#237;s Amado will convene with Yossi Beilin, leader of the Meretz-Yahad party, and at 13:00 he will meet with Tzipi Livni, Minister of Foreign Affairs, with whom he will hold a joint press conference at around 14:45.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The representative of the European Union will then convene with Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, at 15:30, and after he will be with the President of Israel, Shimon Peres, at 17:15, leaving then for Ramallah, in the West Bank, where he will spend the night. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">In that Palestinian city Lu&#237;s Amado will meet with Mahmud Abbas in Mukata, the official residence of the President of the Palestinian Authority, where a press conference will be held at 20:15.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">There will also be a working meeting followed by a dinner with Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">On Tuesday, the second and last day of this visit to the Middle East, Lu&#237;s Amado will visit the Portuguese representation in Ramallah and afterwards will meet with representatives of the Palestinian civil society, before returning to Israel. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;padding-top:8px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Back in Jerusalem, he will attend a meeting with the special envoy of the Quartet for the Middle East (ONU, European Union, United States and Russia), ex-Prime-Minister Tony Blair. <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lu&#237;s Amado with Olmert, Perez and Abbas in the Middle East&nbsp; On Monday the 10th, the President of the Council of Ministers of the European Union, Lu&#237;s Amado, will convene with the Israeli Prime Minister and, later on, with the Palestinian President. 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