EU targets new start in Middle East peace process

The European Union intends to go all out to try reactivate the Middle East peace process in the first six months of this year, the EU’s foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Friday, warning that it was crucial to do so before the United States enters its campaign period for the 2008 presidential elections.

“If in the first semester of 2007 we don’t get the process at least framed, I don’t say finished, but framed, I have my doubts that we will be able to do it before 2008,” Mr Solana said.