After U.S. request, EU delays decision to label products from Israeli settlements

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry asked his EU counterpart Catherine Ashton to put off the move as he tries to restart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

At the United States' request, the European Union has delayed fully enforcing its decision to label products from West Bank settlements in European stores.

European diplomats and senior officials in Jerusalem said the issue, which was due to be pushed through at the EU's Foreign Affairs Council this week, was put off to the end of June.

A year ago, the foreign ministers of the 27 EU member states decided to fully enforce EU legislation regarding products originating from the settlements. Such products would be labeled throughout the EU.

For several months, no EU member moved to carry out the decision. But in February, foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton sent a letter to her colleagues asking them to enforce EU legislation on the issue.

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/after-u-s-request-eu-delays-decision-to-label-products-from-israeli-settlements.premium-1.524644

[NYC_SKP]

1. Sure just keep dickin' around for months, years, generations.

What utter bullshit.

[cali]

2. yup. utter bullshit sums it up neatly.

[L0oniX]

3. The Israeli-Palestinian problem will never be solved!

How many decades have to go by to convince people that this can only end once Israel has stolen every bit of land possible.