Prime Minister Joseph Muscat in a telephone conversation with Mr Tony Blair, the Quartet Representative.

​The Prime Minister received a briefing from Mr Blair about the current status of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. The Prime Minister has highlighted his government commitment towards the peace process.

 

Tomorrow, the Prime Minister is expected to start a 3-day visit to Israel and Palestine.

 

The Quartet, set up in 2002, consists of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia. Its mandate is to help mediate Middle East peace negotiations and to support Palestinian economic development and institution-building in preparation for eventual statehood.

 

The Quartet Representative, Tony Blair, is charged with implementing a development agenda in line with the Quartet’s mandate: promoting economic growth and job creation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and supporting the institution-building agenda of the Palestinian Authority (PA). The goal is to promote transformative economic change on the ground, underpinning the top-down political process aiming to promote a final settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the establishment of an independent and viable Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the State of Israel.