Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)

Under the roadmap it was agreed - Israel signed up to this - that at the outset of negotiations there would be a freeze on all settlements and that the settler outposts would be dismantled. The EU Foreign Ministers obviously reiterated in their statement that the roadmap is the path to a peaceful resolution of the conflict there. Does the Tánaiste agree that President Abbas is entitled to see a freeze on settlements in place prior to negotiations commencing?

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