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Parliamentary question - E-002264/2022Parliamentary question
E-002264/2022

EU memorandum of understanding with Egypt and Israel on natural gas, and the absence of a territorial clause

Question for written answer  E-002264/2022
to the Commission
Rule 138
Jordi Solé (Verts/ALE), Margrete Auken (Verts/ALE), Grace O'Sullivan (Verts/ALE), Rosa D'Amato (Verts/ALE)

On 15 June 2022, the EU, Egypt and Israel signed a memorandum of understanding[1] on cooperation related to trade, transport and export of natural gas to the European Union (MoU). This MoU, negotiated and signed by the Commission on behalf of the EU, does not contain a territorial clause explicitly excluding the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. This omission appears to contradict the long‑standing EU decision that ‘all agreements between the State of Israel and the European Union must unequivocally and explicitly indicate their inapplicability to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967[2]’, as well as UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution 2334, which calls on all states ‘to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967’.

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