Brussels- 27 October 2021- During a meeting with Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Prime Minister Dr. Mohammad Shtayyeh called on the European Union to pressure Israel to abide by all signed agreements. The Prime Minister also urged the EU to take practical and concrete measures to stop Israel's colonial settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territory.
The meeting was held in Brussels today in the presence of Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff, the European Union Representative to the State of Palestine, Riyad Al-Malki, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the State of Palestine, and Abdel Rahim Al-Farra, the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to the European Union, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
The Prime Minister reiterated the call on the European Union to pressure Israel to allow holding elections in occupied Jerusalem and all occupied Palestine. Dr. Shtayyeh also stressed the need for international pressure on Israel to lift the siege on the Gaza Strip, support the reconstruction process, and provide guarantees not to destroy what is being built.
The Prime Minister also briefed Borrell on the Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem; the Judaization policy and the city's isolation from its periphery, and the policy of forcible displacement and transfer of Palestinians, especially in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighborhoods, calling on Borrell to visit Palestine and closely monitor the situation and the suffering of the Palestinian people.
Dr. Shtayyeh stressed the importance of the European Union's recognition of the State of Palestine to save the possibility of achieving the two-state solution amidst the alarming Israeli settlement expansion and land confiscation.