Madrid
After Norway and Ireland, Spain wants to convince the UN to recognize Palestine. Last week, Pedro Sanchez went to Oslo and Dublin with only one point on the agenda: that Norway and Ireland affirm their willingness to adopt the Palestinian state. With his counterparts Jonas Store and Simon Harris, the President of the Spanish Government defined his proposal as “
a political solution which will bring, once and for all, peace and justice to the region
” and “
a necessary step to implement the solution of two states.
This Thursday, it was his Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, who defended at the Security Council the admission of Palestine as a full member of the United Nations and no longer as a simple observer. After the uncompromising condemnation, last November, of Israel's excesses in its war in Gaza, which earned it the fury of Benjamin Netanyahu, it is now a question, Sanchez repeats, of "
passing words...