Brussels 19.05.2024 The European Union has responded to the request of the government of Iran, and started to search for the missing helicopter with President Ebrahim Raisi on board. “Upon Iranian request for assistance we are activating the EU’s Copernicus EMS /Copernicus Emergency Management Service/ rapid response for mapping service in view of to the…
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EU condemns arson attacks on UNRWA
Brussels 10.05.2024 The EU condemns the two arson attacks on the UNRWA compound in occupied East Jerusalem on 9 May, which happened at a time of increasing escalation and a growing campaign against the agency and the UN system at large, reads the European External Action Service press statement. “We call on the Israeli authorities…
MEPs condemn Iran drone attack on Israel
Strasbourg 25.04.2024 MEPs strongly condemn the recent Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel and call for further sanctions against Iran, voting for a resolution on April 25. Condemning the Iranian strikes on April 13 and 14, MEPs voice serious concern over the escalation and threat to regional security. MEPs reiterate their full support for…
EU appalled by World Central Kitchen incident
Brussels 03.04.2024 “The killing by the Israeli Defence Forces of seven members of a humanitarian team of World Central Kitchen, while they were travelling to deliver food to the most vulnerable in Gaza, is appalling” reads the Joint Statement by the EU top diplomat Josep Borrell and Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič. (Photo above:…
IDF hits Iran Consulate in Damascus
Brussels 01.04.2024 UPDATE 18:52 *Iranian media also reported that the strikes in Damascus completely destroyed the annex building, and that the ambassador was unharmed. **AFP correspondents at the site confirmed the building next to the embassy, an annex, had been levelled, in an upscale neighbourhood of Damascus. Today Israeli warplanes struck the Iranian consulate in…
Brussels: glimpse into Hamas hostage experience
Brussels 07.03.2024 Today the Members of the European Parliament, and general public would have an opportunity of an experience of an Israeli hostage conditions in Hamas captivity in a tunnel replicated in a container. The experience lasts just a few minutes, but it produces a shocking and traumatic effect on those who entered the six-by-two…
EU: Commisser Lenarčič responds with €81 aid to Gaza
Brussels 07.03.2024 The Commission has contracted €81 million out of the overall humanitarian aid allocation of €125 million and is working on its disbursement to humanitarian partner organisations. The EU has to date organised 41 air bridge flights to deliver over 1800 tonnes of aid to Palestinians via Egypt and is exploring further means of…
Munich: Borrell supports UNRWA
High Representative/Vice-President, Josep Borrell, kicked off the Munich Security Conference with a meeting with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, on 16 February. High Representative Borrell and the UN Secretary-General Guterres discussed the situation in the Middle East. High Representative Borrell thanked the UN Secretary-General for the vital work of UNRWA and paid…
EU diplomats convene for informal Council
Brussels 12.02.2024 “We are going to take stock with the [EU] Cooperation and Development Ministers of our policy of cooperation with emerging countries. We are in the middle of the financial perspective” – the EU top diplomat Josep Borrell said upon his arrival to Informal Foreign Affairs Council on the issues of the Development. It…
EU: launches ASPIDES operation in Red Sea
Brussels 31.01.2024 “…We discussed two regions of common interest: the Red Sea and the Sahel. We did that in presence of our partners from the United Nations, NATO and also invited the European Parliament” said the EU High Representative Josep Borrell, after the Informal Defence Ministers meeting. “You know that the maritime security in the…
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