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Middle East

Meeting of the Socialist International Middle East Committee, Ramallah and Tel Aviv

23 September 2003

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.


LIST OF PARTICIPANTS


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



Other activities

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