Latest developments in the Middle East affecting the peace process in the region were at the centre of the discussions held at a meeting of SIMEC on Tuesday 23 September in Ramallah and Tel Aviv.
The first session in Ramallah included the participation of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority; Abu Alaa, Prime Minister designate; Abbas Zaki, Head of the International Relations Department of Fatah, and other members of the leadership of Fatah, a member party of the International.
Later in Tel Aviv in the afternoon, a second session of the Committee was held with the participation of representatives of the member parties of the International in Israel, including Shimon Peres, Leader of the Israeli Labour Party, along with Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, Efraim Sneh, Colette Avital, Abraham Hatzamri and other members; and delegates from Meretz, including Naomi Chazan, International Secretary, Roy Yellin, Latif Dori and Sagit Vazan.
Members of the SI participating in the meetings included the Chair of SIMEC, Thorbjørn Jagland; Luis Ayala, SI Secretary General and representatives from SI members in Austria, Belgium, Chile, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. (List of participants)
The discussions underlined the Socialist International full commitment to overcome the obstacles to peace and for an early resumption of dialogue to progress with the agreed roadmap. These discussions will continue in the International at the forthcoming XXII SI Congress in S„o Paulo on 27-29 October.
Chair of the Committee
Thorbjørn Jagland
(Norway, DNA)
Secretary General of the SI
Luis Ayala
AUSTRIA
Social Democratic Party of Austria , SPÖ
Fritz Edlinger
BELGIUM
Socialist Party, PS
Simone Susskind
CHILE
Radical Social Democratic Party, PRSD
Iván Mesías
FRANCE
Socialist Party, PS
Philip Cordery
GERMANY
Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD
Hermann Bünz
Michèle Auga
GREECE
Panhellenic Socialist Movement, PASOK
Costas Stefanidis
ISRAEL
Israel Labour Party
Shimon Peres
Colette Avital
Abraham Hatzamri
Benjamin Ben-Eliezer
Yuli Tamir
Efraim Sneh
Shimon Sheves
ISRAEL
MERETZ
Naomi Chazan
Latif Dori
Roy Yellin
Sagit Vazan
ITALY
Democrats of the Left, DS
Marina Sereni
NETHERLANDS
Labour Party, PvdA
Alvaro Pinto
Bert Koenders
NORWAY
Norwegian Labour Party, DNA
Kathrine Raadim
TERRITORIES UNDER PALESTINIAN
AUTHORITY, PALESTINE
FATAH
Yasser Arafat
Abu Alaa
Abbas Zaki
Ilan Halevi
Adnan Samara
Ahmad Subot
Hussein Abdel Khaleq
Dalal Salameh
SWEDEN
Swedish Social democratic Party, SAP
Ann Linde
SI Secretariat
Latifa Perry
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