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The activities of the Union for the Mediterranean are to be resumed at the end of June in Paris, with a meeting of the Ministers for the Environment.

As announced by a spokesperson from the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs to AFP, "a meeting among Ministers and Ministries that are in charge for the environmental issues is being organized, although a defined date has not been fixed yet."

At the end of May the head of Egyptian diplomacy in France Ahmed Abul Gheit had told AFP that the meeting would take place on June 25 in order to "re-activate" the Union, whose work was stopped since the Israeli attack to Gaza Strip at the end of 2008.

Born as headlight project of the French presidency at the European Union during the second semester 2008, the Union for the Mediterranean - whose main purpose is to re-launch the Euromed cooperation started in 1995 in Barcelona through the development of concrete projects in sectors such as environment, transportation, energy, culture, education etc. - has been literally ignored so far.

The Union for the Mediterranean involves some 40 members, including EU countries, Israel and Mediterranean Arab countries.

The French Minister for Foreign Affairs Bernard Kouchner on Wednesday will go to Sweden - that is taking over the EU presidency from the 1st of July - to discuss with his counterpart Carl Bilt the proposal to link the EU presidency with the Union's governance, which so far is jointly held by France and Egypt.