"The principles of the EU for the Middle East are clear: they must stop violence and find a solution based on two States". In Brussels it is the day of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the first one chaired by the Austrian Ursula Plassnik. The meeting comes at a delicate time for the Middle Eastern scenario, which raised concern in the Ministers of all of the 25 member states. Javier Solana, Senior EU delegate for foreign policy, stated as he had done the day after the Palestinian elections that "Hamas must change and stop violence if it wants support from Europe". Solana recalled that the political party that won the elections "used to be a terrorist organisation". So the new ruling class will have to "recognise Israel" and "change methods, accepting the fact violence is not compatible with democracy". Again, Solana repeated that "there’s a will to negotiate with Iran", but "their position about the nuclear must change". Teheran "has taken decisions that are incompatible with the engagements taken with the International Agency for Atomic Energy and with us". The EU instead seems to be considering Moscow’s proposal to enrich Iranian uranium for civilian purposes in Russia.
