EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana gestures as he stands under a portrait of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a joint press conference with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 31, 2009. Solana is on the second leg of a four-day regional tour which started on August 30 in Syria amid renewed international efforts to resume peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Getty Images logo Getty Images 5 months ago

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana gestures as he stands under a portrait of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a joint press conference with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 31, 2009. Solana is on the second leg of a four-day regional tour which started on August 30 in Syria amid renewed international efforts to resume peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

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  1. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, left, and the former US Foreign Minister Madeleine Albright, right, talk during the second day of the annual Munich Security conference in Munich, southern Germany, on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Politicians and military representatives will join for the annual Munich Security conference until Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010.
  2. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, and former EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, right, shake hands prior the annual Munich Security conference in Munich, southern Germany, on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Politicians and military representatives will join for the annual Munich Security conference from Friday, Feb. 5 until Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010.
  3. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, right, and Serbian President Boris Tadic, left, are seen during a press conference following their meeting at the EU Council building in Brussels, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009.
  4. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana (C) answers questions after a meeting with Serbia's President Boris Tadic in Brussels November 30, 2009.
  5. European Union foreign affairs and security chief policy Javier Solana, right, seen, with Serbia's President Boris Tadic, left, during their meeting at the EU Council building, in Brussels, Monday Nov. 30, 2009.
  6. European Union foreign affairs and security chief policy Javier Solana, right, seen with Serbia's President Boris Tadic, left, prior to their meeting at the EU Council building, in Brussels, Monday Nov. 30, 2009.
  7. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, left, and Sweden's Defense Minister and President of the EU Council Sten Tolgfors address the media at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. The European Union may launch its mission to train Somali forces as early as next month, the bloc's foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Tuesday.
  8. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana answers questions after a meeting with Serbia's President Boris Tadic in Brussels November 30, 2009.
  9. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, second right, is backdropped by a poster of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top left, as he stands during a Fatah council meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010.
  10. Palestinian women wave flags in front of a banner depicting late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) and late Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin during a rally marking the anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement in Al-Eizariya, on the edge of Jerusalem January 2, 2010.
  11. Vatican envoy to Israel, French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, has his hand raised by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) before their meeting at Arafat's headquarter in the West Bank city of Ramallah in this May 2, 2002 file photo. A woman lunged at Pope Benedict and caused him to fall to the floor at the start of his Christmas Eve mass on December 24, 2009. Etchegaray, 87, who has been in frail health recently, fell to the floor "in the confusion" and was taken away in a wheelchair. He suffered a broken femur and will have to undergo surgery but is not in serious condition.
  12. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (R) jokingly pushes Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (C) into the Laurel cabin on the grounds of Camp David as U.S. President Bill Clinton watches during peace talks, July 11, 2000. Arafat and Barak were insisting that the other proceed through the door first. Camp David is the venue where Egypt and Israel made peace in September 1978, and the Laurel cabin was the site of many of the meetings. REUTERS/Win McNamee.
  13. Palestinian girls dance in front of a poster of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as they participate in a celebration marking the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010.
  14. Huge portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are seen during a rally marking the Fatah movement's 45th anniversary in the West Bank Hebron, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010.
  15. RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - DECEMBER 31: In this handout image provided by the Palestinian Press Office (PPO), Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas lays a wreath at the tomb of former Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat on December 31, 2009 in Ramallah, West Bank. Abbas was present to start the celebrations commemorating the forty-fifth anniversary of the Palestinian revolution.
  16. RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - DECEMBER 31: In this handout image provided by the Palestinian Press Office (PPO), Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas walks to lay a wreath at the tomb of former Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat on December 31, 2009 in Ramallah, West Bank. Abbas was present to start the celebrations commemorating the forty-fifth anniversary of the Palestinian revolution.

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