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Article: Sharon to meet with EU foreign policy chief
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 7, 2002
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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 ...