Under the aegis of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), two delegations of five members of the Israeli Knesset and the Palestinian Legislative Council will be meeting today and tomorrow in Rhodes, Greece, "to discuss human rights states a note from the CoE and the implementation of measures to strengthen mutual trust in order, for instance, to ease the flows of people and put an end to the instigation to hatred". The items on the agenda of this first "Tripartite Forum" which gathers elected Israeli and Palestinian representatives along with about 30 members of PACE from all over Europe "there are practical areas of cooperation, such as, for instance, water and treatment of wastewater, the employment of Palestinian labour in Israel, cooperation in health-care and the fight against the illegal trade of vehicles and drugs". "Sometimes, MPs can do more and act faster than governments. We hope these discussions will complete the high-level peace negotiations without interfering with them states Aristotelis Pavlidis (Greece, PPE/DC), who will chair the Forum -. Our aim is to act so that the Israeli and Palestinian societies will get closer to each other". ” “
