Preparations continue for holding a meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council and the process has not been frozen, a senior EU official told reporters on Friday ahead of a meeting of the EU Foreign Ministers Monday in Brussels.

‘’The work is ongoing to prepare the meeting but no date has been set yet,’’ the official said.

Last month, following a meeting of EU foreign ministers, EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini announced that the ministers had decided to start preparations for a high-level Association Council meeting with Israel that was supposed to be held at the end of February. She described it as a ‘’good opportunity and a good tool to exchange views and find common grounds .’’

Such a meeting, the first of the EU-Israel Association Council in several years, was meant to mark tightened cooperation between the two sides and to set out a work plan and priorities for improving relations.

But days later, reports said that the EU, at the request of several members states, had decided to postpone the meeting after the Knesset, Israel’s parliament votes a law which retroactively legalized West Bank settlement homes built on private Palestinian land.

The Middle East Pace Process will be again on the table at Monday’s meeting in Brussels. Ministers will discuss recent developments, including statements made by US President Trump on relaxing the US position on the two-state solution. Mogherini recently discussed the issue with senior EU officials when she visited Washington and with US Vice-President Mike Pence during his visit in Brussels last week.

EU Ministers have reaffirmed their strong commitement to the EU’s’’long-standing’’ positions on the necessity to preserve the viability of the two-state solution, on settlements and on Jerusalem.