Spain, Ireland and other countries in the European Union would be considering recognize the Palestinian State on May 21, according to Irish public television ‘RTE News’. According to this chain, contacts between Madrid and Dublin, as well as between Malta and Slovenia, have intensified with a view to joint recognition. According to the same source, these countries would be waiting for Friday’s vote in the UN General Assembly on the entry of Palestine as a full member.
For now, the Foreign Minister, Jose Manuel Albares, did not want to “anticipate” whether Spain will actually recognize the Palestinian State on May 21, but has made it clear that the decision to do so “has already been made.” In statements to the media this Thursday, Albares stressed that the decision will be known when it is adopted by the Council of Ministers and has defended that “the decisions of the Council of Ministers are never anticipated“.
“What is truly important is not so much the exact day, but the decision, and The decision is made“he stressed, however, giving as proof of this Spain’s support for Palestine’s entry into the UN as a full member state.
“The Palestinian people do not have to be condemned to be eternally a people of refugees. War does not have to be the way of relating between peoples in the Middle East,” defended Albares, who insisted that “Palestinians have the right to a State and that is why Spain is going to recognize the Palestinian State and that is why will vote in favor of its entry into the United Nations at the General Assembly tomorrow.”
It is worth remembering that last March Spain, Ireland, Malta and Slovenia They already issued a joint statement indicating that they had agreed to take the first steps towards the recognition of the State of Palestine, a plan that Israel has branded Hamas’s “prize for terrorism.”
In fact, the president of the Government, Pedro Sanchezembarked last April on a European tour to boost recognition of the Palestinian State, which took him, in addition to Ireland, to Norway, Slovenia and Belgium.
Source: Lasexta
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