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EU Not Ready to Resume Aid to Palestinian Government
[AFP/Yahoo] The EU is not yet ready to resume aid to the Palestinian government despite the unity accord signed last week in Mecca, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner has said, ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. Israel praised the EU's reaffirmed commitment to upholding the economic boycott that has been imposed on the Palestinian government since the rise to power of the Islamist movement Hamas last March. "I think we all agree we are not there yet," said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev. "It is incumbent upon an incoming Palestinian government to accept all three of the benchmarks articulated by the quartet."