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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 03/03
Sharing New Concepts of Security in the EMP
November 2001
Abstract
In November 2000, after five year of talks between the representatives of the participating countries, at the ministerial conference in Marseilles the Euro-Med Partnership (EMP) failed to adopt the Euro-Med Charter on Peace and Stability, i.e. the statement tasked to provide a common ground to Euro-Med co-operation.
There is no doubt that any possibility to reach even a partial agreement was prevented by the crisis unleashed by the second intifada at the end of September 2000. Furthermore, the crisis discontinued the diplomatic process and is now making the resumption of working political relations within the EMP ever more difficult.
Still, it must be stressed the fact that the four-year talks on the Charter had anyway shed light on some fundamental disagreements existing between the North and the South, in particular the Arab Partners, about ways and means to reach out to shared security and stability. Two major disagreements have emerged in the Barcelona process.
