Spain will recognize the state of Palestine until July

Such statements were made by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during his trip to the West Asia.

The state news agency EFE in Spain, the newspaper “El Pais” and “La Vanguardia” quoted the Prime Minister of Spain and wrote that this country will recognize the state of Palestine by July. He apparently made these statements on the first day of his trip in Amman, the capital of Jordan.

Pedro Sánchez, while emphasizing the ongoing and ongoing talks at the United Nations, said he hopes that the Gaza war will end before the European Parliament elections in early June.

According to what Spain’s EFE news agency reported, the country’s prime minister expects Spain to recognize the state of Palestine by July, and there will also be a “critical mass” in the European Union that will pressure several member states to adopt a similar position. put.

During the meeting of the Council of Europe on March 22 (April 3), Sanchez said that he would work with the leaders of Ireland, Malta and Slovenia to “take the first steps” to recognize the state declared by the Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. has agreed.

On the other hand, during a meeting in Spain in November, the Arab countries and the European Union agreed that the two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is working.

Since 1988, 139 of the 193 members of the United Nations have recognized the state of Palestine.

Since the start of the Zionist regime’s attacks on Gaza on October 7, 2023, which left more than 100,000 martyrs and wounded and caused widespread destruction of infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, among the European Union countries, Spain has been the most critical of this has been on a diet.

Following Madrid’s stance on the war in Gaza, relations between the Zionist regime and Spain became tense, and last November, after Sanchez expressed doubts about the legitimacy of this war, Tel Aviv recalled its ambassador to Madrid, but in the end this The ambassador returned to Madrid.

Source: ISNA