Article: Sharon to meet with EU foreign policy chief

Sharon to meet with EU foreign policy chief

JERUSALEM, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will meet Monday night with visiting European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who is in the region in a diplomatic effort to ease the violent situation.

Solana, who arrived in Israel on Saturday, is also scheduled to meet Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah in the day.

The Israeli side, however, opposed the veteran EU diplomat's meeting with Arafat.

Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer told Solana on Sunday that the meeting with Arafat would be "a waste of time" and could impede the ...

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