Italy prepared to do its part<\/STRONG><\/P>
\nThere is a \u201cstrong demand for a European political presence\u201d in the region, and \u201cItaly will do its part during its duty presidency\u201d, the minister assured. The point of departure, she added, is \u201cto specify that peace is both necessary and possible\u201d, and that \u201cthe political resolve to achieve a positive outcome, to speak to one another, is fundamental\u201d. <\/P>
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Strong leadership and determination indispensable<\/STRONG><\/P>
\n\u201cLet us hope the Palestinian unity government can spur the resumption of talks\u201d with Israel, the minister said at the end of her meeting with the Palestinian president, \u201csuccess needs strong leadership and political determination\u201d.<\/P>
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With Peres, Moghernini explained, \u201cwe share a vision and an awareness of the importance of conveying to our respective peoples that turning this page would be enormously valuable\u201d.<\/P>
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An historic day in the Vatican<\/STRONG><\/P>
\nMogherini also pointed out that, with the Vatican prayer for peace, Israeli and Palestinian presidents Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas defined yesterday as \u201chistoric\u201d, and a day that \u201cgave the world back the hope that peace is possible through dialogue\u201d.<\/P>
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Israel and Palestine in early July<\/STRONG><\/P>
\nThe minister announced plans for a mission to Israel and Palestine in the \u201cearly weeks of July\u201d. \u201cWe will continue to work, and have appointments in Israel and Palestine\u201d, she stated, \u201cit will be a mission that I will be making after the launch of the EU duty presidency\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just back from a visit to Lebanon and Jordan, Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini met today with Mahmoud Abbas and Shimon Peres. \u201cThere is the awareness, among both Palestinians and Israelis, that peace is in everyone\u2019s interests\u201d and \u201cthe international community has the duty to support\u201d that path, said Minister Mogherini. Italy prepared to […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,76,42],"class_list":["post-12705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-ministri-precedenti","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}