2024-01-06 20:27:55
The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Joseph Borrellwill make an official visit to Saudi Arabia this Sunday, January 7, after two days in Lebanon to address the situation in the Middle East, marked by the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
“I will visit Saudi Arabia tomorrow and I look forward to substantial discussions on how we can promote our joint initiative between the EU and Arab countries (for a peace agreement),” Borrell said during a press conference from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Europe reports. Press.
Thus, he stressed that he hopes to address during his trip to Saudi Arabia the “concrete steps” that “can galvanize an international effort to paz serious”, in the midst of the offensive launched by Israel against Gaza after the attacks carried out on October 7 by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
Borrell arrived in Lebanon on January 5 for two days of meetings with senior Lebanese officials about the situation, within the framework of the rise in tensions due to the death of the ‘number two’ of the political arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Salé. al Aruri, in an attack blamed on Israel in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
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The Government of Lebanon presented a formal complaint to the United Nations for the attack in which it calls on the organization to condemn the event and take “decisive actions” in the face of Israel’s “aggressions”, while there has been an uptick in clashes between the Israeli Army and the Shiite party-militia Hezbollah on the common border.
The offensive launched by Israel after attacks carried out by Hamas, which left some 1,200 dead and nearly 240 kidnapped, has so far left more than 22,700 Palestinians dead, including 10,000 children, according to the balance sheet published this Saturday by the Gaza authorities. controlled by the Palestinian Islamist group.
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