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Last Update: 05/09/2003 22:30 PM to Solana: Put Hamas on terror list, stop flow of money By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Friday called on the European Union to put Hamas and all of the organization's branches on the list of terror groups, in a phone conversation with EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana. Sharon also called on stopping the flow of money to Hamas from Europe. The foreign ministers of the 15 member states of the European Union are convening Friday in Italy to consider a proposal to place the political wing...

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has been leading an intense round of diplomatic activity to promote the so-called roadmap towards peace in the Middle East. He has met the new Palestinian Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas - more commonly known as Abu Mazen - and the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. The latest round of meetings are meant to pave the way for talks on Saturday between Abu Mazen and the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon - the first official Palestinian-Israeli contact since September 2000. But Mr Solana has not held any meetings with Israeli leaders - the prime minister said...

In an interview with Die Welt, the EU's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, offers some suggestions for how the current crisis in the European Union could be avoided in the future. A "possible cause" for the rift between the EU fifteen is the fact that the EU is not represented by one seat in the United Nations Security Council. "The EU is not represented by one seat in the United Nations. But the problems were created in the United Nations." He noted the differences of opinion ran exactly between the four members of the Security...

European Union Foreign Police Coordinator Javier Solana told Mohammed Dahlan, Saeb Erekat and representatives from the Fatah who met him in Gaza on Sunday night, that he is glad to learn that there has been a lot of progress in turning the intifada into a non-violent campaign. His direct impressions from the field matched the reports sent to Solana's office in recent weeks by European representatives here, led by MI-6's Alistair Crooke. According to those reports, the concept of "non-violence," which was totally foreign to the Palestinians, is gradually sinking into broad strata in their leadership. Yesterday morning, upset by...

Ramallah - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met late on Monday with the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, amid heavy violence which the envoy said had left him "shocked." Solana said nothing upon entering Arafat's wrecked headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, following a massive Israeli raid in the Gaza Strip and deadly clashes between Palestinian police and the Islamic group Hamas. He earlier told Israeli television an overnight tank and helicopter raid into the central Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis to hunt down militants which killed 14 Palestinians and wounded scores of others had left him...

European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana pledged Thursday further EU political and economic support for the Palestinian people and assistance to rebuild and reorganize their institutions. Solana issued the announcement following a meeting in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the beginning of a regional tour expected to take him to a number of countries, including Israel and Palestine. He conveyed that the main goal of the visit was to consult with leaders in the region and explore how the EU could assist in ending the continuous violence and get the sides to resume the stalled Middle...