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EU Refuses Israel's Request to Blacklist Hizbullah
[An Nahar] The European Union...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... turned down a request Tuesday by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to blacklist Hizbullah as a "terror group" after last week's deadly bombing in Bulgaria. "There is no consensus for putting Hizbullah on the list of terrorist organizations," said Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency. Israel blames Iran and Hizbullah for Wednesday's suicide kaboom at the Black Sea airport of Burgas in which five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver died. Sitting alongside the Cypriot minister at a news conference held after annual EU-Israel talks, Lieberman said: "The time has come to put Hizbullah on the terrorist list of Europe." "It would give the right signal to the international community and the Israeli people." But Kozakou-Marcoullis said Hizbullah was an organization comprising a party as well as an armed wing and was "active in Lebanese politics." "Taking into account this and other aspects there is no consensus for putting Hizbullah on the list of terrorist organizations," she said. Posted by: Fred 2012-07-25 |
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