A man shouted “Free Palestine” ,“Israel apartheid state” and “Stop Israeli crimes” at the start of a press conference by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with EU officials in Brussels.
He also attempted to carry out a citizen's arrest on the minister.
The män, reportedly from Ireland and bearing an EU press accreditation card, was immediately taken out the EU press room by security guards. Unconfirmed reports said he provoked the same kind of incident at a press conference by EU Mideast Quartet envoy Tony Blair at the European Parliament last year.
"If he is a journalist, his press card will be confiscated," one EU official told EJP.
Lieberman attended in Brussels the 10th meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council, the body governing the relations between the two sides.
At the press conference were also Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martony, whose country currently chairs the EU, and Stefan Fuele, EU Commissioner in charge of Enlargment and Neighborhood Policy.