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Source: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=232183
EU Trying to Get PA to Soften UN Resolution
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - European diplomats are trying to convince the Palestinian Authority to significantly water down the statehood recognition resolution it's expected to bring to the UN in September to ensure consensus EU support, senior diplomatic officials told the Jerusalem Post Tuesday. According to the officials, the EU is not interested in seeing a resolution that would split the EU and highlight disunity when the EU is interested in projecting the perception of a body that has a single, unified foreign policy. In November 2009 the EU split at the General Assembly over whether to vote in favor of adopting the Goldstone Commission Report on Israel's Gaza operation earlier in the year, with five EU countries voting for the resolution, seven against, and 15 abstaining. In the intervening two years, Israel's relations with Cyprus and Malta have improved dramatically, largely as a result of the deterioration in ties with Turkey.