The Minister for Europe and International Affairs, Mme Catherine Colonna, will go to Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian Territories on 16 and 17 December. The Minister will replace her interlocutors on France’s motion based mostly on the humanitarian, safety and political pillars of President Macron’s Initiative for peace and safety for all.
In Lebanon, the Minister’s go to builds on France’s efforts to keep away from regional conflagration. The Minister will recall France’s dedication to Lebanon’s sovereignty and integrity and stress the pressing have to implement Decision 1701 in full and discover a manner out of the institutional vacuum in Lebanon. Amongst others, the Minister will discuss to Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati and UNIFIL’s Head of Mission and Pressure Commander, Main Normal Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz.
In Israel, the Minister will reaffirm France’s solidarity with the Israeli folks and our dedication to its safety. She could have conferences along with her counterpart Minister Eli Cohen and Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer. She’s going to meet the households of the lacking French folks to guarantee them of France’s help and its all-out efforts to safe their launch. She’s going to name for an additional speedy and sturdy truce which should result in a long-term ceasefire, to safe the discharge of all of the hostages nonetheless being held by Hamas and supply Gaza’s inhabitants with the help it urgently wants. She can even categorical France’s full dedication to the battle towards sexual and sexist violence, and its utter condemnation of such violence, significantly that perpetrated on 7 October by the Hamas terrorists. The Minister will reiterate the necessity to keep away from regional conflagration.
Within the Palestinian Territories, the Minister could have a gathering along with her counterpart, Minister Riyad al-Maliki, to reiterate France’s help for the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian inhabitants in Gaza and the West Financial institution and its lively efforts to handle the humanitarian emergency in Gaza in the long run. She’s going to converse to her interlocutors about Gaza’s future governance and the political prospects for a long-lasting answer to the Israeli-Palestinian battle. Within the West Financial institution, she is going to meet folks on the entrance line of assaults by extremist settlers, that are undermining the prospects for peace.
France reiterates its steadfast dedication to selling a simply and lasting peace as a part of the two-State answer.
