Erakat Asks EU to Recognize Palestinian State Alongside Israel
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Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat formally asked the European Union in a letter to recognize an independent Palestinian state.
Erakat wrote a letter to Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief, asking that the body recognize “two states along the 1967 borders and to oblige the Israeli government to completely halt settlement activity, including in east Jerusalem,” he said today in a phone interview.