“I welcome very favourably the decision by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to ask former finance minister Salam Fayyad to form a new Palestinian government,” Bildt said in a statement.
“Let’s hope that he will rapidly set up a new government, and it is important that we, in the European Union, give him support as quickly and as strongly as possible.”
Western-backed Fayyad has been charged with setting up a government to replace the three-month-old unity administration dismissed by Abbas shortly before Islamic militant Hamas took control of Gaza on Thursday.
Hamas rejected the move as a “coup against legitimacy and a transgression of all laws”.
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