Sánchez speaks with Abdullah II, Al Sisi and Abbas to finalize the popularity of Palestine | Spain | EUROtoday

Pedro Sánchez intensifies his spherical of contacts to arrange the ultimate determination on the popularity of Palestine, which won’t come this Tuesday within the Council of Ministers however does appear imminent, based on completely different Government interlocutors, though La Moncloa doesn’t need to specify the date. After his current journey to the area, by which he visited Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and a European spherical that took him to Poland, Norway, Ireland, Slovenia and Belgium, Sánchez held a collection of phone conversations with the king of Jordan, Abdullah II, with the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattá al Sisi, and with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.

These contacts on the highest degree verify the imminence of the choice to acknowledge Palestine, one thing that Sánchez doesn’t have to vote on in Congress, as a result of it’s the unique energy of the Council of Ministers. Even so, the president has dedicated to going to the Cortes to elucidate the choice and attempt to entice as a lot assist as potential. The PP has already mentioned that it helps the popularity of Palestine, one thing that it permitted in 2014 in Congress in a proposal agreed with the socialists, however not the second by which Sánchez goes to make the choice, which they see as hasty. Sánchez has additionally assured that he’ll inform the teams' spokespersons about this determination.

According to La Moncloa, these phone conversations this Monday “give continuity to the round of contacts that the President of the Government made with the main actors in the region, as well as with other European countries, to promote a diplomatic solution that offers a horizon of peace. , security and prosperity to the region through the recognition of Palestine as a State.”

Sánchez and his staff have been very attentive to the talk on the UN in New York, the place they’ve additionally sought allies to defend the popularity of Palestine as a full member. The Spanish president turned very near the Prime Minister of Malta, Robert Abela, who has a place on this matter similar to his and in addition has the benefit that his nation presides over the UN Security Council this month. Abela, in coordination with Sánchez and different European leaders who assist this exit, took benefit of that privilege to place to a vote final week the entry of Palestine into the UN as a full member, and never as an observer state, the rank it now has. As anticipated, the US vetoed the choice, however there was crucial assist for this leap – 12 votes in favor and two abstentions – which based on the Spanish view helps Sánchez's determination to acknowledge Palestine quickly. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, was resounding in his protection of Palestine's entry into the UN as a full member and already formally mentioned that the choice of unilateral recognition by Spain had already been made and can be executed for the time being. immediate.

Sánchez at all times defends that the perfect can be that in trade for Western international locations like Spain recognizing Palestine, Arab international locations do the identical with Israel, one thing that only some have performed, together with Jordan and Egypt, two protagonists of the talks. But it doesn’t appear that any progress has been made in that sense in current weeks, and even much less so whereas the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza continues, and but La Moncloa is set to take the step of recognizing Palestine imminently, a lot in order that it may very well be a essential factor of the European marketing campaign.

According to the La Moncloa be aware, within the conversations “the president has reaffirmed Spain's commitment to the materialization of the two-state solution and has also thanked the efforts made by these countries to mediate the conflict and deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. In this sense, the president has conveyed to them the need to work together to push the parties towards the political process that brings peace, security and prosperity to the region.”

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