Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos called for “unconditional direct talks” between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Speaking after a meeting with his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman in Jerusalem, Moratinos said Wadnesday Israel and the Palestinians should enter direct, face-to-face talks without preconditions.
"Meeting together, the two leaders, the Palestinian Authority and Prime Minister Netanyahu, meeting together urgently, directly, without pre-conditions, I think is the best way to move forward," he said.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said a temporary freeze on settlements - which is set to expire at the end of September - is a "separate issue" from face-to-face talks.
"It is two separate issues. We clarified our position from the beginning, that this moratorium is only for 10 months and direct talks is a very important issue for both sides, not only for Israel. And we think that we must start immediately with direct talks. And I want to clarify again that there is no place for any moratorium after 25 September," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared the construction freeze last November, after months of pressure from the Obama administration.
Moratinos, who also met Israeli President Shimon Peres, said that he was rather "optimistic about the chances of such direct talks.
"I met with President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman and I have reasons to be optimistic and believe it will soon be possible to move on to direct negotiations," the Spanish minister said.
Moratinos also announced that several EU ministers would visit the Gaza Strip in September with some "concrete ideas" regarding a "strategic economic plan for Gaza" and how to deal with Israel’s security needs.
This visit was originally scheduled to take place this week but according to the Jerusalem Post, it was postponed due to internal wrangling among the EU member states.
Last June, only weeks after the Gaza flotilla incident, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, on a visit in Rome, invited his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini to put together a group of five or six European Foreign Ministers – including those from Spain, France, Britain and Germany- to visit Gaza.
Lieberman said that it was not enough for the EU to make declarations regarding Gaza, but rather it should take part in projects that would improve the Strip’s economic situation.
"To help the economic situation it is important to resolve the two biggest problems: water and electricity," he said.
The invitation to the EU ministers marked a significant departure from the previous Israeli policy of refusing to allow visits of foreign politicians to Gaza.
But it also created a power play within the EU with foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton deciding to visit Gaza before the ministers – what she did earlier this month in order to assert her authority over EU foreign affairs – and led to disagreements among the EU Foreign Ministers about who should go to Gaza.