Saudi Arabia In the wake of the deal between the
international community and Iran over its nuclear programme.
By : Mohamed
Adel
Saudi Arabia In the wake of the deal between the
international community and Iran over its nuclear programme, EU High
Representative Federica Mogherini was in Saudi Arabia Monday to discuss
regional issues. Today she travels on to Iran. Speaking after meeting Saudi
Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, she said: “I would also like to
thank you for the warm welcome as well as the excellent and long exchange of
views on all the main important issues we have in common between the European
Union and Saudi Arabia,
starting by the important bilateral relations that
cover all fields of our public life, from the talks we had on visa issues, to
security and counter-terrorism cooperation, energy and trade economic
opportunities, people to people contacts. We have deep relations and we - on
the European side - are willing to strengthen them even more.
We have also
discussed the possibility of structuring our cooperation even more, on a
bilateral level or through the GCC-EU cooperation, and the use of the idea we discussed
at the last meeting of the EU-GCC Ministerial a couple of months ago of
tackling issues of human rights through a separate working group in the Gulf
Cooperation Council.
I have particularly appreciated our common visions on the
Middle East Peace Process, where we in the European Union believe that the
Saudi Arabia has a key role to play, in particular in reviving the Arab Peace
Initiative that could be an important element of the way forward to restart the
process that at the moment is not in place.
We are very much aware in the
European Union that the lack of process in itself is creating a vacuum that is
extremely dangerous, in Gaza, in Jerusalem and in the West Bank. We have
discussed the ways of cooperating together with other friends and partners in
the region and in the international scene, such as the United States, the UN,
Russia, other key Arab countries, to recreate the conditions for a Middle East
Peace Process to bring concrete results on the ground and the creation of the
Palestinian State on one side and on the other the right of Israel to live in
security.
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