Members of the Middle East Quartet
hold a press conference to announce their qualified endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
’s Gaza Disengagement Plan
. Left to right: Javier Solana
, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union
and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy; Colin Powell
, Secretary of State of the United States
; UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
; Sergey Lavrov
, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
; and Brian Cowen
, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland
and rotating representative for the European Union.
