European Commission Vice President Josep Borrell explained clearly that the challenge has to be serious efforts toward a two-state solution and not a ceasefire that will end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"If you want to build the two-state solution, do not wait for the ceasefire. Start working on it from now on," Borrell said to the influential US foreign policy think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, in New York on Friday.
Building peace is at least as complicated as stopping the war, High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Borrell said. The idea that we can start building peace after we stop the war is utopical and completely contrary to the dark reality, he added. We have to overlap the two processes, he noted.
Promoting the creation of a Palestinian state on several events on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting has been marked by Borrell, Xinhua news agency reported.
Addressing the Ministerial side event on the Middle East Peace Process on Friday, Borrell said, "We have a responsibility toward thousands and thousands of innocent children who were killed" while warning that the way Israel has been conducting wars in the Middle East is certainly not a way to ensure security for Israel.
"These attacks against Lebanon have been creating such a great number of civilian casualties that cannot be justified by the right to defence," Borrell said.
Israel has pounded Lebanon since Monday morning, killing over 700 people and injuring nearly 2,200 others, according to figures released by the Lebanese Health Ministry.
He promised, too, that the EU would continue to support the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
"We are the biggest supporter of UNRWA. We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to providing critical resources to ensure that the agency continues its ongoing operations, and we call to the international community to join us in this effort," Borrell stated during the UNRWA Ministerial Level meeting in New York.
"Together we can do a difference for millions of people, nothing less than that," he said.
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