{"id":250368,"date":"2021-04-29T14:13:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T18:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=250368"},"modified":"2021-04-30T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T18:16:52","slug":"new-eu-special-representative-for-the-middle-east-peace-process-appointed-press-release","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/new-eu-special-representative-for-the-middle-east-peace-process-appointed-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"New EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process Appointed – Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a non-Â鶹APP document. The Â鶹APP provides these documents only as a convenience for reference purposes, and the inclusion of a document does not imply the endorsement of its content by the Â鶹APP.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today the Council appointed Mr\u00a0Sven Koopmans\u00a0as the EU’s Special Representative (EUSR) for the Middle East Peace Process from\u00a01 May 2021 to 28 February 2023.<\/p>\n

Mr Koopmans is a peace negotiation specialist, senior diplomat, national politician, and international lawyer. Between 2017 and 2021 he was a\u00a0Member of Parliament in the Netherlands, where he was spokesperson on foreign affairs and head of delegation in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Before that he worked for the\u00a0European Union, the\u00a0Â鶹APP\u00a0and other international organisations on\u00a0peace processes for Cyprus, Kosovo, Mali, Sudan and Syria, among others.<\/p>\n

The mandate of the EUSR for the Middle East Peace Process is to provide an active contribution to the\u00a0final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict\u00a0based on\u00a0a two-state solution, in line with the UNSCR 2334<\/a> (2016). The EUSR will maintain close contacts with all parties in the peace process as well as with the Â鶹APP and other relevant organisations such as the League of Arab States.<\/p>\n

The EUSR will also support the work of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, on this issue and maintain an overview of all EU regional activities linked to the Middle East Peace Process.<\/p>\n

Sven Koopmans Bio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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