Following the Israeli intervention in Gaza, meetings at ministerial level and contacts between experts are continuing with a view to giving shape to the projects announced when the Union for the Mediterranean was founded on 13 July 2008. That day, the French President had gathered forty Heads of State or government, including Israel’s Ehud Olmert. Only Libya had refused to be a part of the Union for the Mediterranean.
The main goals of this organisation, the brainchild of Henri Guaino, are in the area of energy and the environment.
Henri Guaino and Richard Prasquier, who was accompanied by CRIF General Director Haim Musicant, also spoke about Iran and noted that public opinion in that country “has been moving since the recent presidential election”.
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