The European Union turned down Tuesday an Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman call to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist group

The European Union turned down Tuesday an Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman call to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist group, saying there was no such consensus among EU member states.

“There is no consensus for putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organizations,” said Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency.

Sitting alongside the Cypriot minister at a news conference held after annual EU-Israel talks, Lieberman said: “The time has come to put Hezbollah on the terrorist list of Europe ... It would give the right signal to the international community and the Israeli people.”

But Kozakou-Marcoullis said Hezbollah was an organization comprising a party as well as an armed wing and was “active in Lebanese politics.”

The Israeli request came on the same day Bulgaria’s prime minister announced that a sophisticated group of conspirators was involved in the suicide bombing in Bulgaria. He added that the group had spent about a month in Bulgaria before the attack.

Also Tuesday, Elnashra Website reported that Lieberman had warned that if Syria’s chemical weapons end in the hands of Hezbollah, the Zionist entity would declare war.