This Thursday, Spain took its commitment to the recognition of the Palestinian State to the UN and requested Palestine’s entry into that organization, while Pedro Sánchez vindicated his initiative from Brussels. “Spain is playing a vanguard role,” highlighted the head of the Executive after his round of contacts in Europe and the Middle East.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, made a firm defense of the need to recognize the Palestinian State, as Spain is preparing to do, and for it to become part of the UN to guarantee security to Israel and provide hope to the Palestinians. . “The Palestinian people have the right to hope and the Israeli people have the right to security,” said Albares in his speech before the UN Security Council in the debate held to address the situation in the Middle East and Palestine’s request for become a full member of the United Nations.
“I am convinced that there is an alternative path to permanent violence and endless pain between peoples called to live together,” he added, while calling for the application of the two-state solution. “Making this solution irreversible is making peace in the region irreversible,” he said.
For Albares, it is “the best way to protect and guarantee that the two-state solution will be applied.” “This implies its recognition by everyone, as the vast majority of its members have already done, and as Spain is going to do,” he concluded. And he warned that we cannot wait any longer.
At the beginning of his speech, the Spanish minister also referred to “Iran’s unacceptable attack on Israel”, which he “strongly” condemned, and warned that “it has placed us one step closer to the abyss”.
“In the coming weeks, all parties must show restraint to stop the violence” and lay the foundations for a peaceful future since “the risk of regional escalation is more real than ever.” And it would have “unforeseeable geopolitical, economic and humanitarian consequences.”
“The escalation must stop. The spiral of violence must stop. The Palestinian people must have their place in this assembly and a State of their own, and also the place and existence of Israel must be recognized by all those who have not yet done so,” he concluded.
“We are going to take that step,” Pedro Sánchez insisted from Brussels, after completing his round of contacts and trips to promote the recognition of the Palestinian State, in parallel to the open debate at the United Nations.
Spain, he stressed, will recognize Palestine as a State “when circumstances allow it.” “We are talking to other countries to be able to take that step together,” she said. And he explained that before approving it in the Council of Ministers, she will inform the parliamentary groups.
