PrintJuly 18, 2007
Quartet Quartered, Road Map Thwarted, Palestine Aborted
The Quartet's Road Map has failed according to the ten foreign ministers of the European Union's Mediterranean States - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Spain, France, Greece, Italy , Malta, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia - ("the Mediterranean Ten"). In an open letter to the Quartet's new negotiating supremo Tony Blair, they state unequivocally and without any diplomatic nuances :"Topping this analysis - we might as well admit it straight away - is the recognition of a shared failure we can no longer ignore: the "road map" has failed. The status quo which has prevailed since 2000 is leading nowhere, as we know." This unusually frank admission heralds the end of the European Union's involvement with America, Russia and the United Nations in the Road Map jointly sponsored by the four of them in 2003.Four years of intense international diplomacy in the Middle East by the world's most powerful negotiating team ever assembled to achieve what the Mediterranean Ten call...(Read Full Article)
