The Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) is an area of policy that attracts huge public interest. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office receives hundreds of letters every month from concerned members of the public on this issue. The pages which follow set out our responses to the questions most often raised. They are updated regularly to take into account the latest developments. Please click on a link below for responses relating to a particular subject area. (For further information please visit the Israel Country Profile and the The Occupied Palestinian Territories Country Profile.)

UK and the MEPP

• The UK Position

Plans for Resolution of the Conflict

• Negotiated peace settlement
• Role of Quartet
• Geneva Initiative
• Sharm al-Sheikh

Israeli Issues and Actions

• Realignment
• Disengagement
• Settlements
• Barrier
• Bil'in
• Closures
• Military actions
• Sonic booms
• Targeted Killings
• Demolitions
• Sanctions
• Arms sales
• Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Status of Jerusalem
• Israeli Arabs
• Aqaba deportations
• General Doron Almog
• Consular cases

Palestinian Issues

• Security
• Financial reform
• Elections
• Hamas
• Funding
• International Community
• Customs Revenue
• Bethlehem
• Terminology

Humanitarian Issues

• Humanitarian crisis
• United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)

Human Rights

• Human Rights
• Geneva Convention
• Human Rights Observation Force
• Prisoners (and conditions in Israeli prisons)
  
• Citizenship & Family Unification Law
  
• Anti-Semitism
  
• Individual cases (Mordechai Vanunu & Hussam Khader)

International Partners

• European Union (EU)
  
  - Goods from settlements
  - UK Presidency of the EU
  
  
• United Nations (UN) Issues