EU Chief Diplomat Calls for Ceasefire in West Asia
NAPLES (Dispatches) – The European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Saturday a ceasefire was a priority in West Asia.
“A new perspective is open and we have to use it to reach a ceasefire, a release the remaining (Israeli) captives and to look for a political perspective,” Josep Borrell, the EU’s top diplomat, told reporters at a meeting of G7 defence ministers in Naples.
He also said the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, could be strengthened, having come under the Zionist regime’s fire. “UN forces have to be respected all over the world ... maybe the mission of the UNIFIL has to be reviewed but the first thing to do is a ceasefire,” Borrell said, adding it would be up to the United Nations’ Security Council to make decisions on UNIFIL.