Spain to host talks on the Israel-Palestinian two-state solution.
Madrid: Spain is to host on Friday Ministers from Muslim and European countries to further deliberate on the two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
The Spanish foreign minister announced in a statement that the meeting will be convened by the Arab-Islamic Contact Group for Gaza, which includes countries such as Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Further, the minister will not disclose the details of the participants.
Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, will meet and greet the participants at the Official Residence before the event is conducted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Affairs in Madrid, with Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albares, as the Host. According to a statement on his spokesman’s Twitter account, Josep Borrell, the head of the European Union’s External Affairs Service, will also attend the meeting.
The ministerial meeting will further the debate on the necessity to enhance the involvement of the international community in the peace and security in the ME and the task to build an international consensus on what sort of process will replace the failed two-state solution,’ the statement noted.
Albares had a diplomatic session with the group in May. They let the participants know what measures could be implemented to promote the two-state solution – the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as well as Israel.
Calls for the solution have been made louder in the last three months, when the warfare in Gaza began with Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7. While under his leadership, on May 28, together with Ireland and Norway, Spain officially accepted a Palestinian state that included the Gaza Strip as well as the West Bank.
At the beginning of this month, he stated that the first ‘Spain-Palestine bilateral summit’ would be held by the end of the year. He said he anticipated “several cooperation treaties between the two states” to be signed.
