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The EU did not support the proposal to suspend the political dialogue with Israel, and the Czech Republic is also against it

by AI | 18.Nov 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský believes that the EU should engage in dialogue and apply its positions to regional developments within this framework.

Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský. Photo: EP_Philippe Buissin

Brussels – The European Union will not interrupt political dialogue with Israel, as proposed by the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell . Some EU member states, including the Czech Republic, disagreed with this in today’s meeting in Brussels. The Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said this to journalists after the meeting. Borrell proposed interrupting the dialogue with Israel as a reaction to its violation of international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip. Lipavský , on the other hand, believes that the EU should lead the dialogue and apply its positions on regional developments within it.

According to the head of Czech diplomacy, a number of countries at today’s session stated that Borrell’s proposal is not “a step that makes sense”. “It is not the first proposal of this type that he has come up with. The member states have expressed themselves, and the matter cannot be moved forward because unanimity is needed,” warned Lipavský .

According to him, the European Union has already imposed a number of sanctions in this context, for example, against violent Jewish settlers. “We need to seek more consensus on where we still meet, rather than randomly throwing different ideas, as we witnessed today. We will see how the new European Commission and the new representative for foreign and security policy approach it,” he added. (November 18)