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Its agenda was the following:

  • Battling religious Fundamentalism worldwide;

  • Achieving mutually satisfactory trading terms for the region's partners, the "region" consisting of the countries that participated;

  • Eliminating or greatly reducing United States presence in the Mediterranean.


Javier Solana opened the conference saying that they were brought together to straighten out the "clash of civilizations" and misunderstandings that there had been between them, and that it "was auspicious" that they had convened on the 900th anniversary of the First Crusade . He described the conference as a process to foster cultural and economic unity in the Mediterranean region. The Barcelona Treaty was drawn up by the 27 countries in attendance, and Javier Solana, who represented Spain as their Foreign Minister during their turn at the Presidency Of The Council Of The European Union , was credited with the diplomatic accomplishment.


AFTERWARDS

Both Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat had high praises for Solana's coordination of the Barcelona Process. Ehud Barak said they had all beaten their Sword s into Ploughshare s and that at last Israel had joined the " European Club". Libya was not present at the Conference as Colonel Gaddafi claimed it was a blatant European attempt to gain hegemony outside its borders. However, in 2000, both Gaddafi and his country acknowledged and signed up for the principles laid out in the Barcelona Process. The Barcelona Process, developed after the Conference in successive annual meetings, is a set of goals designed to lead to a Free Trade Area in the Middle East by 2010 . Solana has said that by the tenth anniversary of the conference true Middle East peace might be achieved.
The Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area (EU-MEFTA) is based on the Barcelona Process and ENP . The Agadir Agreement of 2004 is seen as its first building block.


CONFERENCE MEMBERS

At the initial meeting in 1995 , the following members were present and agreed to the Barcelona Declaration:

; The 15 EU member states of the time:
















; 12 governments from the wider Mediterannean region:













;Representatives from two european institutions:


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