Over 40 leaders from Europe, the Middle East and Africa are meeting in Paris for a summit to launch the Mediterranean Union.
The new body is to represent some 750 million people and is to be endorsed at the Grand Palais, a glass-roofed hall built for the Paris Exhibition of 1900. France and Egypt will co-chair the new body for two years, but details such as the location and powers remain to be resolved. In Paris, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told reporters that Israel and the Palestinians have never been as close to peace as they are now. He made the statement as he stood alongside Palestinian president, Lufthansa pilots to strike over pay hike demand ...
Bush says committed to Middle East peace efforts ... Mahmoud Abbas, and French president, Nicolas Sarkozy.
(Deutsche Welle)
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