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PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen met the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, with Socialist Group Leader Martin Schulz and French Parti Socialiste Leader Martine Aubry in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

5 March 2008More than 120 Palestinians, among them children and civilians, have been killed and around 300 injured in the Gaza strip in the last week. Life is becoming unbearable for the Gazawi people, with the latest round of violence and death

13 November 2007 The Party of European Socialists launched a declaration in support of the 41 Lebanese MPs who have been living for the past forty days under armed guard in a hotel in Beirut unable to leave due to fears for their safety.PES

5 September 2006The President of the Party of European Socialists, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, today called on the European Union to put a major effort into reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace, and praised Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja for

18 July 2006 Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the Party of European Socialists, called for a U.N. intervention in the Middle East "to ensure an immediate ceasefire and to protect civilians on all sides from further attacks." Calling on

28 March 2006The Israeli election results - with exit polls giving Kadima a lower than expected 29 seats and Labour an excellent 19 seats - makes the Labour Party a natural coalition Government member commented the President of the Party of European

16 March 2006Commenting on the current situation in the Middle East, including recent Israeli military action, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the Party of European Socialists, said “The Israeli military intervention ordered by the Israeli

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen met with Amir Peretz, Leader of Israeli Labour Party, at Socialist International Council, held in Athens on 30 and 31 January 2006.Upon a discussion on the stakes of the forthcoming Israeli parliamentarian elections, PES