I propose to take Questions Nos. 24 and 61 together.
The Government does not consider that suspension of the Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreement with Israel would serve any useful purpose. Any such action, as a practical matter, would have undesirable consequences, such as undercutting, as far as Israel is concerned, the role which the European Union has in the peace process, blocking Palestinian trade with the EU and rendering the continuation of our programmes of assistance to the Palestinian Authority and people more difficult to implement.