It included the foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, France and Germany

A European-Arab meeting in Cairo to seek to revive the peace process

The four ministers during a press conference after the meeting.

EPA

The foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, France and Germany held a new meeting yesterday in Cairo to work on reviving the Palestinian-Israeli peace process.

The four ministers discussed "possible steps to advance the peace process in the Middle East, and to create an environment conducive to the resumption of dialogue between the Palestinians and the Israelis."

This quartet, which met for the first time in Munich in February 2020, and then in Amman in September, announced that it would hold its next meeting in Paris without setting a date for it.

In a joint press conference after the meeting, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said that the group is working to "prevent any measures that undermine the two-state solution."

He condemned, in this context, the declaration by Israel that “we collectively” will build 800 new housing units in the settlements of the occupied West Bank.

The Jordanian minister emphasized that the group is working to reach a comprehensive peace through the "two-state solution", stressing that "the alternative is the one-state option."

He continued, "In this case, the whole world must say whether it accepts a state based on the apartheid system."

The French Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, stated that the Israeli settlement "contradicts international law, and if it continues, it reduces the chances of establishing a Palestinian state."

The joint statement of this Quartet confirmed its intention to work, with the administration of President-elect Joe Biden, to revive the peace process.

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