Spain’s overseas minister insisted Sunday that the two-state answer is the one different to battle between Israel and Palestine and is pushing for concrete measures to advance it at a world assembly in Madrid.
“What’s the alternative? Kill all the Palestinians? Send them, I don’t know where—to the moon?” Jose Manuel Albares mentioned in a speech forward of the assembly.
Madrid is internet hosting a bunch of 20 nations—overseas representatives from European nations, Muslim nations, and Brazil—in addition to worldwide organizations to debate ending the warfare, Israel’s siege on Gaza, and advancing towards a two-state answer.
“Gaza is an open wound for humanity… There are no words to describe what is happening in Gaza—but just because there are no words doesn’t mean we will remain silent,” mentioned Albares.
The variety of nations within the so-called Madrid Plus Group has doubled, mentioned Albares, with nations like Germany, Italy, France, and Portugal, which didn’t attend the primary assembly, exhibiting up on Sunday.
“There’s a lot of diplomatic muscle here today,” mentioned Albares. “We are different governments coming together, but we all believe in the same principles and are not resigned to accepting violence as the natural way for Israelis and Palestinians to relate.”
He mentioned that “time is running out” for a two-state answer, however the Madrid assembly goals to make clear “concrete steps” to show the scenario round for the sake of each Palestinians and Israelis.
Albares mentioned Spain will push for measures to finish the warfare, together with suspending the EU-Israel commerce settlement, an EU-wide arms embargo on Israel, sanctioning extra people linked to the battle, and “making the two-state solution impossible.”
Spain will suggest that the upcoming UN assembly on June 16 be used as a “great movement for the recognition of a Palestinian state,” he added.
“Then, around a year later, we can hold another international meeting with Palestine as a full state with complete rights within the UN,” he mentioned.
Source: www.anews.com.tr