On the subject of EUBAM, does the current, suspended monitoring include checkpoints on the West Bank?
No. The EU is prepared to send the EUBAM mission to Rafah to allow it to reopen, in conjunction with Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and Israel. It is also prepared to examine the possibility of expanding its assistance to other checkpoints, as soon as questions relating to security have been satisfactorily resolved. So do you consider the situation in the West Bank to be satisfactory, so that monitoring of settlement activity isn’t necessary? Do you think the monitoring could include this region, or do you reject that idea? The monitoring process must be the subject of an agreement by the parties. We are facing a new situation and we have no way of knowing what will be decided. Today there’s a mandate based on the 2005 agreements that concerns Rafah, and which was suspended in 2007. President Mahmoud Abbas, who is officially in charge of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and on the West Bank, publicly called for Security Council member states to send observers to the West Bank and Ga
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