Middle East, calls on Israel to open Gaza Italy
Posted on June 3, 2010 by cesa
FLORENCE (Reuters) – Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has asked today that the Israeli government to put an end to the embargo against the Gaza Strip, the enclave controlled by the Islamists of Hamas, saying it would contribute to peace negotiations with the Palestinians .
“I believe that Israel can and should be allowed freely, subject to security measures, all items required to access the interior of the Gaza Strip,” Frattini told reporters in Fiesole.
“This should help the continued optimal (peace talks) told us this morning as Sen. (George) Mitchell sent by (U.S. President Barack) Obama, and the president (Palestinian) Abu Mazen. Frattini also spoke of the investigation on the Israeli raid against a flotilla of boats carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza to break the embargo that has lasted for years, after killing at least nine pro-Palestinian activists.
The minister called for Israel in the investigation involving the Middle East Quartet, comprising the U.S., Russia, UN and the EU.
“We demand that Israel involving the Quartet, the international body that is generally reliable. And ‘investigation of Israel, which is a sovereign state, but the association would respond to the Quartet to the whole international community.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today proposed that the internal investigation on the case involving foreign observers.
