World figures call to peace and Gaza rebuilding
Egypt: Heads of State, foreign ministers and representatives of
international entities called vigorously to achieve peace in the Middle
East and rebuild Gaza, although narrow political opinions made
differences in the approaches emerge.
Success in the efforts to rebuild Gaza depends not only on the amount
of funds, but also on the number of other important conditions, Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak said.
Speaking as the host of the conference in support of the Palestinian
economy and the reconstruction of the enclave, the president asserted
that the aid “should be perceived by all the Palestinian people in Gaza
and not understood as military trophy of some groups.”
Peace and opening all border crossings in the Gaza Strip are related
to the Palestinian reconciliation, he said, and highlighted the
importance of the Egyptian initiative to stop the Israeli aggression
against Gaza that lasted 22 days.
He also said the temporary truce was the step to press later for
lifting the blockade, the opening of borders and rebuilding the Strip,
where more than 1,350 people died and 1,300 others were wounded.
Mubarak said inter-Palestinian reconciliation will be additional to
the reconstruction efforts, a stance in which UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon and Arab League General Secretary Amr Moussa agreed.
Mousa asserted that the meeting is a strong message, saying that the
world is involved in peace and that it condemned the Israeli aggression,
while to the Egyptian Red Crescent National Committee, the meeting
“launched a political message to Israel.”
Ban called intolerable “the situation in the border crossings.
The aid assistants do not have access and bringing in basic products
is banned.”
Our first essential goal is to open the border crossings, he said,
and also called to guarantee stopping the smuggling of weapons that are
supposedly brought into Gaza for the Islamic groups.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which controls Gaza, and
Israel, the main actors of the war and crisis in the Strip were left out
of the conference in Sharm El-Sheikh.
Sharm El-Sheikh, Prensa Latina
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