The high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, will propose to EU governments suspending political dialogue with Israel. That will be the proposal that the head of diplomacy will take in his last meeting with the EU Foreign Ministers within the framework of the review of the agreement with Israel that Spain and Ireland proposed and that has been in a drawer for months due to the lack of consensus within the community club.
The proposal is based on the violation of international and humanitarian law in Gaza, which the 27 have already pointed out for the attacks on the blue helmets in Lebanon and whose failure to comply is a violation of the rules of the EU Association Agreement with Israel.
The proposal will be discussed at the Foreign Affairs Council, scheduled for next Monday in Brussels, to see what the Member States think about it.
In this way, Borrell fulfills his promise to take this matter to the last Foreign Council that he will preside over before handing over the baton to the Estonian Kaja Kallas.
According to reports from independent international organizations, there are reasons to consider that Israel is violating human rights and international humanitarian law, added the diplomatic sources cited by the EFE Agency, who specify that suspending the political dialogue does not mean the suspension of the Association Agreement. or the Association Council. In fact, they added, it may be something that can be discussed in the Association Council with Israel.
Now, the proposal formally puts on the table the debate between Member States about how they view Israel’s behavior and whether they believe that Benjamin Netanyahu’s Government may be violating human rights and international humanitarian law.
At the same time, diplomatic sources said, it is a “serious political signal” about how the EU views the behavior of the Israeli authorities due to the war in Gaza and Lebanon.
This step comes after Borrell confirmed the impossibility of meeting the Association Council with Israel to listen to the head of that country’s diplomacy, as the foreign ministers of the Twenty-seven had requested before last summer.
Source: www.eldiario.es
