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TunisiaRemarks by HR/VP Mogherini at the joint press point ahead of the annual spring meeting of the International Donor Group for Palestine
It is a pleasure to welcome back to Brussels the Foreign Minister of Norway, my good friend Ine [Marie Eriksen Søreide] for our annual spring meeting of the International Donor Group for Palestine in support of the Palestinian economy, the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee.
The Ad Hoc Liaison Committee is a means to an end and I want to start by stressing this. It is a tool that was created because of the Oslo agreements to pave the way towards the creation of two states in the Holy Land with a Palestinian State living in peace alongside the State of Israel.
The second point I would like to make is that the European Union is and will remain the biggest and the most reliable donor to the Palestinians. European Union assistance to Palestinians has been more than €300 million every year for the last 15 years.
We believe there is a solution to this conflict and it is the two-state solution. It requires our support and this is why we are here.
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