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Britain, France, Germany offer to combat Gaza arms smuggling
11 hours ago
BERLIN (AFP) — Britain, France and Germany Saturday announced they had offered to help prevent arms smuggling into the conflict-torn Gaza Strip, as London said it was ready to provide naval support in the effort.
In a joint letter to the Israeli and Egyptian governments published in Berlin Saturday, the three countries said they were ready to take a number of steps to "contribute to an end to the arms smuggling to Gaza".
They would also continue to work with the governments in Egypt and Israel "to implement these measures," according to a German version of the text.
"Germany, France and the United Kingdom, along with other partners, support efforts by the Israeli and Egyptian governments to reach a lasting truce in Gaza," said Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in their letter to Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Britain, France and Germany expect a lasting truce in Gaza to be followed by "a new dynamic for a lasting peace in the Middle East", they added.
The leaders' letters were handed over by their respective countries' embassies in Israel and Egypt.
Olmert was expected to announce later Saturday a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza, where a three-week-old Israeli offensive aimed at ending rocket attacks from the Islamist movement Hamas has left more than 1,200 Palestinians dead.
In London Brown told reporters, "We are prepared to provide British naval support to stop arms trafficking."
"We will do everything that we can to prevent the arms trafficking that is at the root of some of the problems that have caused the conflict," he added..
"Britain is prepared to give naval resources so that we can monitor and stop arms traffic and arms getting into Gaza. I believe that will help get a solution to this crisis.
"We are prepared to do anything we can to help also with the crossings to make sure that there is proper protection and therefore proper monitoring as well."
He added: "Other countries are agreeing also that they will provide the support that is necessary to stop arms getting into Gaza.
"At the same time, we're prepared to provide European support for monitoring at the crossings."
However, German government spokesman Thomas Steg said the details had not been worked out yet.
"They will be discussed and fixed in the coming days with France and Britain and the other parties concerned on the ground."
Merkel, Sarkozy and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will attend a meeting Sunday hosted by Egypt in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh where European leaders and UN chief Ban Ki-moon have been invited, officials said.
Diplomatic sources said invitations had also been sent to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Sarkozy will meet with Israel's Olmert in Jerusalem after co-chairing the summit with his Egyptian counterpart, while Merkel was to meet the Israeli prime minister in Tel Aviv the same day, French and German officials said.
The French government also said it would send medical aid, trauma surgeons and a bomb disposal squad to Egypt on Sunday so as to be ready to deploy an 80-strong team of rescue workers into Gaza once fighting there subsides.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Friday signed a US-Israeli deal aimed at halting the arms smuggling in a bid to clinch a ceasefire there.
The memorandum of understanding "provides a series of the steps that the US and Israel will take to stem the flow of weapons and explosives into Gaza," Rice said. "The MOU we sign today is ... a vital component for the cessation of hostilities," Livni added.
Rice, who blamed Hamas for sparking Israel's military offensive, said at a signing ceremony in Washington that the deal aims to ensure that "Gaza can never again be used as a launchpad" for rocket and other attacks.
