Translation of "conférence régionale pour le proche-orient " (French → English) :

70. Calls also for the MEDA regional programme to be used from the outset of Phase 1 and on a broad scale in order to fund projects in the Middle East designed to examine how an EU-Israel-Palestine partnership could be established that would be stronger than the existing one, while encouraging regional cooperation;

Euro-Mediterranean Conference in Valencia aims to boost the Barcelona Process despite Middle East crisis

8. Calls on the French Presidency of the Council, the Commission and the High Representative for the CFSP to renew their efforts to convince the parties concerned to resume negotiations, by undertaking to supply, through the Commission and the EU Special Envoy to the Middle East, European Union expertise in all the areas concerned, in particular regional cooperation, together with the necessary resources to assist in the implementation of the agreements;

The agreement reached on implementation of Israeli redeployment in Hebron represents a very important step forward : indeed, it clears the way for indispensable further progress in the Middle East peace process, within the already established framework of the Madrid Conference and the Oslo agreements.

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Cooperation with the region As already laid out in the Commission's Communication on "Future Relations and Cooperation between the Community and the Middle East" (see IP(93)733), the Community's substantial assistance in favour of some 4 million Palestinians, on the one hand, and 80 million people living in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel, on the other hand, should be balanced.