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(ANSAmed) - PARIS, MAY 20 - According to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, the Mediterranean Union, the ambitious project set up by the rotating presidency of the EU in Paris a year ago, has been "blocked" due to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Kouchner was speaking to the National Assembly. "I am sorry to announce the blocking of the Mediterranean Union," said Kouchner, "but until the situation in the Middle East is clarified, it will be difficult to continue", he pointed out, alluding to the paralysis in the peace process caused by the conflict in Gaza. Amongst other things, Kouchner mentioned the Mediterranean Union conference on the environment, scheduled to take place in Monaco but which has been put back to an as yet unconfirmed date. "It is not encouraging," said the minister. "Until there is decisive progress in the peace process in Gaza as in the whole of the Middle East, there will be no ministerial meetings," concluded Kouchner. (ANSAmed).