In the 25 pages of the Memorandum, which was reached by Belgian VRT television, Prevot emphasizes that Belgium as a signatories of the UN Convention on the prevention of genocide is obliged to use all available means to counteract crimes.
Among the proposed activities was, among others A ban on importing products and services from Israeli housing estates in occupied territories and a ban on entering Belgium for selected representatives of the Israeli government. According to government sources, the preliminary consensus already exists on the prohibition of entering two ministers, and Prevot proposed to add to the list of the head of the Israeli defense ministry Israel Kac.
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Belgium postulates the rapid recognition of Palestine
The minister also proposes sanctions against illegal Jewish settlers, modeled on solutions adopted in Great Britain and Canada.
The memorandum also provides for the possibility of pursuing the Belgian prosecutor's office of Belgian citizens staying in Israel and in occupied territories if they committed serious violations of humanitarian law or terrorist acts.
An important part of the document are proposals for arms and military transit trade. Prevot, according to VRT, proposes to prepare a regulation that would introduce a total ban on flights over the Belgium of aircraft transporting weapons to Israel.
The minister is also in favor of breaking the cooperation of the Belgian army with the Israeli defense industry, including Purchases of ammunition and spare parts. However, the most controversial point of the memorandum is the postulate of the rapid recognition of Palestine.
This position is put by Prevot (which belongs to the ruling coalition to the Francophone Party of the Christian Democrats Les Engages), as emphasized by VRT, at a collision course with Prime Minister Bart de Wever (from the Right -wing party of the New Flemish Alliance) and the Frankophone Liberal Party of
The memorandum is to become the basis for further talks under a five -party government coalition.
