EU agrees to deal with non-Hamas Palestinians

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Source: Reuters

EU agrees to deal with non-Hamas Palestinians

By Paul Taylor and Ingrid Melander
22 minutes ago

BREMEN, Germany (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers backed
an Arab peace initiative on Saturday and agreed to engage with ministers
of the new Palestinian national unity government who are not members of
the Islamist Hamas movement.

They voiced full support for the Arab plan revived at a summit in Riyadh
this week offering Israel peace and relations in exchange for a complete
withdrawal from Arab land occupied in the 1967 Middle East war and a
solution the Palestinian refugee problem.

"The international community should not lose that opportunity (for peace).
We have already lost many opportunities," Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel
Angel Moratinos told reporters after the EU ministers discussed the Middle
East.

"We have a pragmatic position to deal with all interlocutors that are not
members of Hamas ... The finance minister, the interior minister and the
foreign minister are not members of Hamas," he said, at the meeting in
Bremen, Germany.

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