Spain transfers its support to Palestine for the creation of a State

The Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, met this Monday in Brussels with his Palestinian counterpart, Riad Al-Maliki, to whom he conveyed the support of Spain to the creation of State of Palestine as a solution for peace in the Middle East.

The meeting took place on the margins of the Council that the Foreign Ministers of the European Union held today in Brussels, where the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, invited Al-Maliki and the ministers of Israel, Jordan, Egypt and the Secretary General of the Arab League to analyze the escalation of tension in the region.

As Albares wrote in a message on the social network X, he conveyed to Al-Maliki Spain’s commitment to peace, to the Palestinian people and to the recognition of the Palestinian State.

The head of Spanish diplomacy also expressed the desire to reach an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Stripas well as the need for the Islamist group Hamas to release all Israeli hostages and for humanitarian aid to be allowed access to the Strip.

In today’s Council, Borrell also presented a roadmap for peace that proposes from the outset a strong international participation in the process, which would begin with the holding of a preparatory peace conference that lays the foundations for the subsequent negotiation between the Israelis and Palestinians themselves.

Albares recalled in a press conference after the meeting that Spain already proposed the idea of ​​a peace conference that the European Council assimilated last October and that obtained a “massive support” in the Arab world, he said.

“It is time to move forward in the organization of that conference,” said Albares, whose goal “It cannot be other than that of the implementation of the two States.”

He explained that today the ministers held a political debate to provide profile and content to that conference, although they have not yet moved on to decision-making.

The fact that the two-state solution “It’s not easy, and it isn’t, that doesn’t mean it’s not realistic.”Albares stressed, and assured that today around the Council table “we have all agreed”, both the Twenty-Seven and the invited ministers of the region, in that they want peace.

Asked about the announcement today by the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hadja Lahbib – whose country holds the presidency of the Council of the EU -, of the organization “in the more or less near future” of a peace conference in Brussels to relaunch political dialogue in the Middle East, Albares indicated that “What we want is for definitive peace to occur and give rise to the materialization of two States.”

He added that the place where it will be produced is not the main objective.

He also pointed out, regarding the recognition of Palestine as a State, which Spain wants “do things in concert” with its EU partners and “We would like all of this to take place within this peace conference and for Spain to support what the Palestinians and Israelis agree on.”