(6 Jan 2024)
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Beirut, Lebanon - 6 January 2024
1. Two shots of EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell and accompanying delegation entering Ein Alteeni palace- the residency of the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament Nabih Berri
2. Various of Borrell meeting with Lebanese speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri
3. Borrell accompanied by the Lebanese Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Abdullah Bou Habib entering the meeting hall at the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign affairs
4. Various of EU and Lebanese delegations meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the presence of Borrell and Bou Habib
5. EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell accompanied by the Lebanese Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Abdullah Bou Habib entering news conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Josep Borrell, EU Foreign Policy Chief:
“It is time to make our idea of two state solution a reality, otherwise the cycle of violence will continue generation after generation , funerals after funerals, because you cannot kill an idea. You can kill people , but you cannot kill an idea. The only way of killing a bad idea is to bring a good one. And the good one is to make the Palestinians and the Israelis live together in peace and security sharing the land. This is a strong commitment that the European Union wants to take."
7. Cutaway cameras at news conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Josep Borrell, EU Foreign Policy Chief:
“Gaza is an integral part of the territories occupied by Israel since 1967 and Gaza must be part of the future Palestinian state, the whole International community agrees in the two state solution as the only viable solution that could bring peace and security for Israel and Palestine.”
9. Wide shot of news conference
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdullah Bou Habib, Lebanese Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants:
“There is a lot to be discussed and negotiated because an agreement could be signed, could be signed or whatever it is certified after the war in Gaza. No agreement before the end of the war in Gaza. He is right, we agree with that, but we can always start talking now if there is a possibility.”
11. Wide shots of the two ministers leaving news conference
STORYLINE:
The European Union’s foreign policy chief said Saturday during a visit to Beirut in an attempt to tamp down tensions on the Lebanon-Israel border that he aims to jumpstart a European-Arab initiative to revive a peace process that would result in a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"War is not the only option - it is the worst option" for solving regional conflicts, Josep Borrell said at a press conference with Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib.
Borrell said negotiations and a two-state solution - not the punishing war launched by Israel in response to the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack in Israel, which has killed more than 20,000 Palestinians in Gaza - are the only way to break the hold of Hamas in Gaza.
"The only way is the creation of a Palestinian state offering a horizon of hope for the Palestinians," he said. "...You can kill people, but you cannot kill an idea. The only way of killing a bad idea is to bring a good one."
Borrell said he will visit Saudi Arabia Sunday with the aim of a "substantive discussion of how we can build a joint European Union-Arab initiative to concrete steps that could galvanize a serious international peace effort."
The Lebanese foreign minister said Saturday that no deal could be reached before the end of the war, but that talks might begin sooner.
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