PO: Kouchner and Moratinos ask the U.S. to recognize the role of E U
AFP | 23.09.10 | 3:39
The leaders of the French and Spanish diplomacy, Bernard Kouchner and Angel Miguel Moratinos, on Wednesday asked the United States and the parties in the Middle East better recognize the complementarity and the role of Europe in peace efforts for thirty years.
"We're not competing, we're not jealous, we want to add our energy and our sensitivity to energy and sensitivity" Americans "about the conflict, Mr. Kouchner said during a debate at the Kimmel Center at the University of New York.
Reaffirming that the European Union "was a bit annoyed" at not being invited to direct talks conducted under the auspices of the United States, however, he dismissed the idea that Europeans "have been excluded."
"We talk every day" with Washington, he said. He recalled that no one "gives as much money" to the Palestinians than Europe. Moratinos has demonstrated harsher:
"There is still a lack of understanding in the United States on what Europe is," he said, recalling the difficulties he had encountered in getting to listen to Americans during his mission to EU Special Envoy to the Middle East from 1996 to 2003.
The Europeans have "a role", "input", they claim to have an "action more visible," he said, noting that Europeans had first called for a Palestinian state thirty years ago and had been at the forefront to ensure peace after the Lebanese-Israeli conflict of 2006.
"Who shall they call" the day when there will be an agreement peace "to organize the police and security arrangements," asked the Spanish minister, saying that the parties believed would turn first then to Europe.
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