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’Israel’ Suspends EU Contacts in Palestinian Dialogue over Goods Labeling

’Israel’ Suspends EU Contacts in Palestinian Dialogue over Goods Labeling
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"Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the entity's Foreign Ministry to suspend contacts with the EU over the "Israel"-Palestinian dialogue because of the bloc's decision to label goods produced in "Israeli" settlements in the besieged West Bank.

’Israel’ Suspends EU Contacts in Palestinian Dialogue over Goods Labeling

Netanyahu who was once also Foreign Minister, had ordered the holding of "a reassessment of the involvement of EU bodies in everything that is connected to the diplomatic process with the Palestinians", a ministry statement said Sunday.

"Until completion of the reassessment, the Prime Minister has ordered a suspension of diplomatic contacts with the EU and its representatives in this matter," the ministry added.

At the same time the "Israeli" regime's bilateral relations with EU individual states over the "Israel"-Palestine talks will continue, Emmanuel Nahshon, the spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, said, according to the Haaretz daily. However the newspaper stated that neither the timing of this decision nor its scope or difference from previous measures is clear at the moment.

The step follows an EU decision to label products produced in "Israeli" settlements in the occupied West Bank, to which Netanyahu objected.

"The European Union should be ashamed," Netanyahu said in a video statement on November 12, after the EU had announced its decision, Ynet News reports.

Immediately after the EU demanded the labeling of occupied West Bank goods, the EU ambassador to the "Israeli" entity, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, was summoned to the entity's Foreign Ministry and informed of the suspension of diplomatic dialogue in several European forums.

"Israeli" entity President Reuven Rivlin also canceled his visit to the EU headquarters in Brussels scheduled for December 2.

The EU does not recognize "Israeli" control over the territories seized during the Six-Day war in 1967 - West Bank, East al-Quds [Jerusalem] as well as the Golan Heights - disregarding their current status under "Israeli" law. The new law requires the labeling of products made in these territories as "products of the West Bank [Palestinian products]", "product of Gaza" or "product of Palestine." Enforcing the law is to fall under the authority of individual EU member states.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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