{"id":2843,"date":"2025-04-14T16:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:18:50","slug":"2014-2015-another-european-minister-of-foreign-affairs-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/2014-2015-another-european-minister-of-foreign-affairs-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 &#8211; 2015 : Another European Minister of Foreign Affairs in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Since the summer of 2014, 8 European Heads of Foreign Affairs have been to Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The 1st one was Borge Brende, from <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Norway<\/span>, on September 8, 2014. Then came George Vella, from <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Malta<\/span>, on October 29. Followed by Martin Lindegaard, from <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Denmark<\/span>, on November 4, 2014. &nbsp;A few days later, the <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Head<\/span> of External Affairs for <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Europe<\/span>, Federica Mogherini, made it to Gaza in her turn.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In 2015, the first one to enter the Gaza Strip was Jos\u00e9 Garcia-Margallo from <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Spain<\/span>, on January 13, 2015. On February 16, 2015, Charles Flanagan, from <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ireland<\/span>, was the 6th European Minister of Foreign Affairs to see for himself. Then came Frank-Walter Steinmeier, from <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Germany<\/span>, on June 1st, and Bert Koenders, from <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">the Netherlands<\/span>, on July 15.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">To each of them go our appreciation and gratitude. They represent the Europe that we believe in, standing for awareness and responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;\">We cannot wait until talks about a two-state solution are back on track, to improve living conditions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;\">We are sitting on a powder keg here. We must make sure it doesn&#8217;t ignite.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">German Foreign Minister \u00a0Frank-Walter Steinmeier upon his visit to Gaza, on June 1, 2015<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>GermanyForeignOffice\u00a0\u00a0 @GermanyDiplo<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">FM Steinmeier in Gaza: I take the hope from my Talks in Jerusalem + Ramallah, that the danger of a burning powder keg is being seen.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">FM Steinmeier : Need opening of \u00a0Gaza borders + economic development. Gaza must not become launch pad for rocket attacks on Israel again.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Since the summer of 2014, 8 European Heads of Foreign Affairs have been to Gaza. The 1st one was Borge Brende, from Norway, on September 8, 2014. Then came George Vella, from Malta, on October 29. Followed by Martin Lindegaard, from Denmark, on November 4, 2014. &nbsp;A few days later, the Head of External Affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageriesdelapaix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}