More important in the long term should be the partnership deal hammered out by Mrs Ferrero-Waldner and Libya.
The European Union's Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner spoke in an interview Monday about the need for follow-up.
At the time, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said the 27-nation bloc wanted to promote change in Cuba.
The EU's External Affairs Commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, made many trips to Libya in an attempt to secure their release.
Correspondents say it is far from clear whether Ms Ferrero-Waldner was expressing an official view of the European Union towards Israel .
The European Commissioner for External Relations, Benito Ferrero-Waldner, says the European Union wants to revise the group of would-be Middle East peacemakers, the so-called quartet.
"We are prepared to work with any Palestinian government, if this government seeks peace, using peaceful means, " said Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the EU's external relations commissioner.
Mrs Ferrero-Waldner was his hand-picked candidate, and her defeat has caused the recent grumbling in his party over his autocratic leadership style to get louder.
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EU's foreign-affairs commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, is drafting a co-operation agreement with Kazakhstan, in effect claiming Central Asia's largest and most successful country as part of Europe's neighbourhood.
Two weeks ago Beilin met with the EU's External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and elicited from her a clear EU rejection of Olmert's plan to determine Israel's borders.
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He was famous during his playing days for epic battles with Swedish great Jan-Ove Waldner, the first table-tennis millionaire who at one point owned a chain of bars in China.
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Mr. BENITO FERRERO-WALDNER (European Union Commissioner for External Relations): We are ready to do as much as we can to try to facilitate the movement and access between the two sides, stop the violence that is there.
"After Annapolis, there will be an important pledging conference in Paris, where we Europeans, of course, will maintain our high levels of support to the Palestinians, but where we also want to see burden-sharing by our Arab friends, " Ferrero-Waldner said.
The story is a bit of fluff, its charming characters engaged in a mix-up so contrived it beggars even theatrical suspension of disbelief: The penniless Count and Countess Waldner hope to marry their daughter Arabella to a wealthy man, and since they can't afford to launch younger daughter Zdenka into society at the same time, they have her dress as a boy.
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