The European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell has expressed frustration at the opposing positions of the bloc’s member states on an increasingly tense conflict in the Middle East.
“It takes too long to say some things that are very clear,” he said as he arrived at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
“It is quite clear that we must be against Israeli attacks on UNIFIL, especially since our soldiers are there,” he said, referring to a joint EU statement on recent attacks on the UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, issued on the eve of the meeting. .
Borrell also said EU countries are at odds over arms supplies to Israel, after Spain called for an embargo.
“Member States are strongly divided,” he said, adding that other EU countries are in favor of supplying more weapons to Israel.
