The EU’s Javier Solana made his comments on Saturday at a lecture in London while Palestinian and Israeli peace talks remain stalled. The Palestinians have said they will not revive peace talks unless there is a halt to Israel’s settlement activities in the West Bank “After a fixed deadline, a U.N. Security Council resolution should proclaim the adoption of the two-state solution,” Solana said, adding this should include border parameters, refugees, control over the city of Jerusalem and security arrangements. BRUSSELS, July 12 (Reuters) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief called for the U.N. Security Council to recognise a Palestinian state by a certain deadline even if Israelis and Palestinians have not reached agreement among themselves. AQIM is operating across a vast stretch of weakly governed states where traffickers, rebels and bandits have long operated.

Analysts say the threat posed by the group is based as much on a mix of criminality and opportunism as on hard-line Islamism.(Reporting by Tiemoko Diallo; Writing by David Lewis; Editing by Louise Ireland) France France. The hostage-taking has brought into focus the threat posed by the North Africa branch of the global terror franchise, which is known as AQIM and has emerged out of the Algerian Islamist movement, the GSPC. Talks on Greiner’s release had been on-going since the killing of the Briton. But they were taking place amid a series of clashes between the Malian security forces and the Islamists that killed dozens in the remote desert in the north of Mali. “We can confirm that the Swiss (hostage) has been freed,” Seydou Cissouma, a spokesman for Mali’s president, told Reuters without giving any further details of the release. Werner Greiner was captured in late January with three other Westerners while attending a music festival near the Niger-Mali border. Two women in the group were later freed before Edwin Dyer, a British man, was killed in May.

It said that it had arrested about 47,000 immigrants who came from Turkey last year. Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis will visit Spain and Italy next week to discuss among other issues the illegal immigration problem (Reporting by Lefteris Papadimas) Turkey Turkey. (Adds background, details) BAMAKO, July 12 (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s North African wing has freed a Swiss hostage it has been holding in the Sahara since January, a spokesman for Mali’s president said on Sunday. Police said that during the operation a fire broke out and burned the camp down, but no one was injured.