We have not communicated we have not negotiated mistrust and divisions have deepened.

You know they are the leaders who ordered the killing of hundreds of Thais?

For Ukraine, Europe can help by embracing the free trade agreement that we are now negotiating.

But we cannot reach that goal alone, much less negotiate with those whose idea of a stable and peaceful Middle East is one that has no place for Israel.

We feel it is time to start negotiations without preconditions, as we have already spent far too much time negotiating on the way we should negotiate.

On this journey, I'd like to bring, apart from yourselves, a good friend, a stakeholder, who's always absent when we deal with the negotiations on environmental issues, a stakeholder who refuses to compromise planet Earth.

Israel wants indeed, desperately needs peace and stability in the Middle East, and we will continue to do everything in our power to achieve it. But we cannot reach that goal alone, much less negotiate with those whose idea of a stable and peaceful Middle East is one that has no place for Israel.