Norwegian Foreign Minister: “End the conflict in Gaza is much more than finish the current war”
Norwegian Foreign Minister Barth Eide, stated that ending the battle in Gaza “is much more than finishing the [actual] Guerra, because we have seen for many years that violence kills people, there is a break and returns again. ” Egypt, Malta and Iceland, in addition to and six vice ministers, representatives of the EU, the Arab League and the Islamic Conference.
Norway is one of the countries that, together with Spain, has recognized Palestine as a state. His minister has highlighted the “dramatic” situation that Gaza is living after the end of the fire – which Israel left on March 18 – and has affirmed that this has motivated several countries “to be prepared to say brazenly that this has to finish.” “You have to complete the battle, you need to end it. You must open routes for humanitarian distribution, however you even have to complete the battle,” he emphasized.
Both Norwegian minister and his Iceland counterpart, Katrín Gunnarsdottir, expressed his desire for more countries to recognize Palestine as a state and that this is carried out in parallel to the Arab countries normalize their relationship with Israel, in a reciprocal recognition process. “We must pave the way in which” so that “massive nations” also recognize Israel, said the head of Icelandic diplomacy, a process that has described as “important” and as the “solely viable resolution”, which must go hand in hand with the respect of the state of Israel by the Middle East.
For his part, the Foreign Minister of Functions of Portugal, Paulo Rangel, has declared that the situation in Gaza is of “whole disaster” and has defined the Madrid meeting as a “essential” assembly to arrange the convention deliberate in mid -June in New York on the answer of two states. (EFE)
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