The European Union's foreign policy chief said in an interview released Saturday that he hoped to send European experts in cooperation with Egypt to help train Palestinian security forces within the coming months.

"Probably together with Egypt, we will send well-prepared people so that the Palestinians can enact a sensible command structure and also have the ability to fulfill their duty," Javier Solana was quoted as saying in Sunday's edition of Der Spiegel, a weekly news magazine.

He also called on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to pull out of all the occupied territories.

If Sharon believes that with a "pullout from Gaza everything is already done and that peace would come automatically, we won't support that," he said. "That wouldn't be a dream, but a nightmare."

Solana told The Associated Press last month that no new "bold ideas" for the Middle East should be expected before the US presidential election in November.

He said the EU, the United States, Russia and the United Nations would continue pressing for the internationally backed "road map" peace plan they drafted with the goal of having two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace in 2005.

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