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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

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen PES President met with Leila Shahid, General Delegate of Palestine to the EU, and later with Colette Avital, Member of Knesset of the Israeli Labour Party to discuss the crisis in Gaza and the resolution to be adopted by the

PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen has sent a letter to Ehud Barak, Leader of the Israeli Labour Party and Minister of Defence, calling him to “end immediately the military operation and ground invasion.”The letter, while acknowledging that

PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen today warned “There is no military solution to the insecurity of life in and around Gaza. Only a comprehensive political agreement between Israel and Palestine will create the conditions for peace and

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 February 2007The Party of European Socialists  calls on EU Foreign Ministers meeting today in Brussels to do all they can to encourage the start of new peace talks in the Middle East following the agreement of Fatah and Hamas in Mecca to form a

14 September 2006 The Party of European Socialists today pledged to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to do all it can to get European Foreign Ministers meeting tomorrow to support the moves to set up a unity government in Palestine.Poul Nyrup

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

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

 The international community should respect the choice of the Palestinian people Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President of the Party of European Socialists, told the Socialist International meeting in Athens today, and doors must remain open until the