United Nations – United Nations (AP) – Spain And the senior diplomats rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu There will be no Palestinian state, saying that the Israelis will one day want to live side by side in peace with the Palestinians.
“A real wave” on Monday. The two countries realized the case of Palestine Since Spain, Ireland and Norway in May 2024, a huge number of two countries supported the Israeli -Palestinian conflict, which is approximately 80 years old.
He said at the United Nations: “On the day everyone will have realized the state of Palestine, we will have to go forward.” “I am sure that we will one day find the right people for peace on the side of Israel, in the same way that we found on the Palestinian side” in the Palestinian Authority.
Spain was at the forefront of pressure on Israel Ending the war in Gaza Hamas’s sudden invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, criticized “atrocities” and “endless killing” committed in the region.
Albaris spoke to the United Nations General Assembly meeting in its annual gathering of world leaders. At the meeting, the Palestinians expected to learn about 10 modern and official countries to the state of Palestine, adding to a list of more than 145 countries already they have. France, Luxembourg, Belgium and others thus at the meeting, even after Netanyahu repeated his pledge that there would be no Palestinian state. The confessions came on the weekend from the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.
The Spanish minister described Hamas as a “terrorist organization” that does not want a state to dissolve. “So let’s put the extremists aside, and let us search for people who want peaceful and safe coexistence.”
Albaris said that Spain rejoiced one of the strongest positions against Israel’s actions in Gaza because “we cannot accept that the natural way for people in the Middle East to be connected through the war, through violence.”
He said that Israel has the right to peace, stability, security and the state, as well as the Palestinians. “I don’t see why they should be condemned to be a people of refugees forever.”
Albaris said it is impossible for Spain, as a democratic country that believes in human rights, to have a “natural relationship with Israel” while “this endless war continues.”
In recent weeks, Spain has presented its opposition to Israel’s actions in Gaza. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez described the war as “genocide” Earlier this month, when he announced plans to make the formal nature prohibiting weapons and preventing delivery operations that link Israel from passing through Spanish ports. Netanyahu accused Sanchez of “a blatant vulgar threat.”
The following week, The demonstrators supporting Palestine For those who expressed the government, its support, the last station of the international bicycle competition in Madrid was suspended due to the presence of a team with relations with Israel.
In the aftermath of the accident, Sanchez called on Israel to ban From all international sporting events while the war continues. This was followed by a diplomat in order to ban both countries, and the Israeli ministers and leaders accused the Spanish government of being “anti -Semitic”.
Albaris said that when pressing Israel to end the war in Gaza, Spain defends the principles supported by the United Nations after the Second World War – peace, justice, human rights and human dignity.
In another controversial case, the minister defended Spain refused to spend 5 % From the gross domestic product of defense as US President Donald Trump requested. At a NATO conference in June, the Sanchez government was the only NATO member who says it will not increase spending to this level.
“We will achieve the goals and obligations necessary for European Atlantic Security within NATO,” Albaris said. “We said to meet them, we do not need 5 %, we can do this by 2.1 %. We have already reached a 2 % target.”
He said that Spain’s military deployment along the eastern side in Europe, including “historical peak”, includes 3,000 soldiers among its European security contributions, “We are a very committed ally of Atlantic Security.”
Albaris said the United States is a “natural historical ally” for Spain and Europeans. “Let’s continue to do this in the same way. But of course, we need two for tango,” he said. Albaris said that what is clear is that Europe must take its fate increasingly with its hands, whether it is intensifying trade or internal security.
Given the broader challenges from the severity of wars to poverty, climate change, artificial intelligence progress with no handrails, Albaris said the only answer to addressing them is through all countries that work together – the multilateral approach that supports the United Nations mission.
He said, “In the end,” cooperation is always … stronger than confrontation. “
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