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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America EU top diplomat visits Gaza to press for open borders AFP - 1 hour 28 minutes ago Send IM Story Print EU top diplomat visits Gaza to press for open borders GAZA CITY (AFP) - – The European Union's top diplomat Catherine Ashton visited Gaza on Sunday to press for the further lifting of Israel's blockade on the Hamas-ruled territory. On her second trip to the impoverished Palestinian enclave in four months, Ashton was due to assess the partial lifting of the four-year closures in the wake of a deadly May 31 raid on a Gaza aid fleet. "We've made it clear that we want to see the potential for the people of Gaza to live an ordinary life," Ashton told reporters in the West Bank town of Ramallah before her visit. "There needs to be an opening of the crossings for both people and goods to flow in both directions." She said the European Union was willing to send monitors to help operate the crossings, but they would have to have a clear role and work with the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, which Hamas drove out of Gaza in 2007. "At the moment that is not something that is on the table," she said. Israel said it would begin allowing everything into Gaza except for weapons and dual-use goods during the international uproar that followed the bloody seizure of the flotilla and the killing of nine Turkish activists. It said it would allow building materials into the territory but only for internationally supervised projects and that its naval blockade would remain in place to keep the Islamist Hamas movement from importing military-grade rockets and other weapons. The European Union welcomed the changes but has pressed Israel to allow for freer travel and the export of goods manufactured in Gaza, where the near-collapse of the private sector has spawned 40 percent unemployment. "What we have today is 75 percent less (volume of traffic) than what we had in the first half of 2007... That's not what we are looking for," Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad said on Saturday. "The economy of Gaza cannot be sustained only by importation. There needs to be exports," Fayyad told a joint press conference with Ashton. Ashton was to press those concerns during her three-day Middle East trip, which includes meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting US envoy George Mitchell and other officials. She had no plans to meet anyone from Hamas, which is blacklisted as a terrorist group by the West because of its refusal to recognise Israel and its commitment to armed struggle. In Gaza, Ashton will visit a summer camp and a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA). She will also visit local businesses co-financed by the EU through its private sector reconstruction programme in Gaza. The British baroness was named last year as the EU's high representative for foreign affairs, a new position that was created to give the 27-nation bloc a single voice on the world stage. The visit came as Mitchell held the sixth round of indirect peace talks between Israel and the West Bank Palestinian leadership in a bid to relaunch direct talks suspended after the Gaza war erupted in December 2008. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has thus far rejected US and Israeli demands for direct talks, insisting that the two sides first make progress on the thorny issues of final borders and security. Israel first imposed the closures on Gaza in June 2006 after Hamas and other militants captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in a deadly cross-border raid. The 23-year-old is still being held at a secret location. The sanctions were tightened a year later when Hamas seized power after driving Abbas's forces out in a week of fierce street clashes. 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