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As he was finishing at the Montecitorio the meeting of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), of which Italy holds the rotating chairmanship of the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Gianfranco Fini, announced the news just received from Brussels, the postponement of the Summit of Heads of State and Government UfM due to be held in Barcelona on November 21. This was announced by a statement of the Presidency of the Chamber. In concluding the work of the Bureau, Mr Fini said he hoped to be established at the 'early in the new date of the summit to give a political response to the situation.
deep regret - the statement concludes - for the referral, clearly due to the stalled peace process in the Middle East, and 'was expressed by all members of the bureau that they intended to reaffirm the requirement that the final declaration of the summit itself will take place in the more' soon as possible. The Barcelona summit was to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership that was launched in 1995 in the cities' Catalan.
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