H. E. Mr. Ahmad Abdelrazek:

The Senator spoke about England, talking about history and I hope that one day what has happened between Ireland and England will arrive with us. This was only a reference for history.
About the kidnapping and what has happened in that, at the time of the kidnapping President Abbas condemned publicly it. He asked the question to Hamas, "Did you that?" They said: "No." So important information from Hamas he answered. This is the first point. Then, as the Senator said, Mr. al-Arouri in Turkey declared that Hamas was behind this kidnapping. A few days ago President Abbas went to Doha to meet with Meshaal and he asked him the same question: "Why did you tell me that you were not behind the kidnapping and you were behind the kidnapping?" He told him exactly: "I didn't know. We are not aware of that." So what has happened until now we do not know exactly because either the people who kidnapped the teenagers acted on their own or by orders, which level of orders we do not know. These are the answers that we have. We acted upon these answers and we are still acting upon these answers. Clearly whoever did it, we condemned it because we are against it.
About the Euro-Med agreement, every time we remind the Europeans of their engagements, their agreements, with Israel and to respect these agreements. That is what we can do. What else can we do? I think the people here, who are aware of that, should also remind the Europeans of their obligations towards this question because we do not understand. In other countries immediately sanction is taken. When it comes to Israel all kind of sanction is stopped. It is hermetic. We do not understand this attitude. Now they have started to understand this politics of colonisations is harmful for everybody, we hope that they will start to apply what they have decided.
I said it in the end; we will not accept the status quoanymore. We have to find a solution. If not, we will address the United Nations organisations. I can tell the committee that Hamas has signed the paper which permits us to go to the Rome treaty. It means that Hamas will be responsible also to the court - Hamas or other one, or me or anyone. They signed - they accepted that they go with the Rome treaty. We are not looking to go for tomorrow for the Rome treaty.

We cannot accept that every two years our people will be massacred and that the economy and infrastructure will be put back to zero. The European Union has financed most of the infrastructure in Gaza. Everything is being destroyed, but it has not asked what has happened to the infrastructure which it financed through its taxpayers.

If there is no action, we will take all legitimate action permitted by law. That is our right. As President Abbas has always said, we have always tried to find a negotiable solution and we are following that strategy. We need a response.