Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said this Monday that it was time “implement” the creation of the Palestinian state.as a solution to end the war in Gaza that has been going on for more than three months. “It is no longer about saying that we are for the two-state solution. Obviously this is the entire international community and the entire European Union, and this has been repeated many times. Spain has been committed from the first moment in implementing this solution,” Albares said in statements to the press.
Arriving at the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels today, Albares said: “It's time to talk about it.” Realization of two states“, one Israeli and the other Palestinian. This Palestinian state, according to the minister, must be “realistic and viable” and connect Gaza and the West Bank through a corridor to maintain the territorial continuity of a country that must be governed “under the control” of “even the Palestinian Authority” with the capital East Jerusalem.
“If we want this to be the last time we see this Explosion of violence in the Middle East “We must give the Palestinian people a horizon of hope,” said Albares, who also insisted on the need to hold a peace conference to end the current war between Israel and Hamas.
The “comprehensive” peace plan presented by Borrell
In the same vein as Albares, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs spoke today: Josep Borrellfor which “we have to stop talking about peace, the peace process, and start talking more concretely about a process for a two-state solution.” Borrell presented one Peace plan to the EU countries in order to be able to realize this Palestinian state which European ministers will discuss today together with their counterparts from Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, as well as the Secretary General of the Arab League.
The Foreign Ministers of the European Union (EU) expressed this Monday their support for the demand for a two-state solution, as called for in the plan of the head of Community diplomacy, Josep Borrell.
European ministers exchange views separately by their counterparts invited to Brussels from Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, as well as the Secretary General of the Arab League.
Borrell's Decalogue deals with this Creation of a Palestinian state and normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab worldand that the international community take the initiative in the talks and that later Israelis and Palestinians come together for direct negotiations in which the presence of the Islamist group Hamas is excluded.
An idea that the solution comes from outside, which Borrell already expressed on January 3rd in Lisbon, when he said that “peace can only be achieved permanently if the international community participates dramatically in the realization of peace and a solution prevailed.”
Israel asks the EU for support in releasing the hostages
The Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katzcalled this Monday in Brussels the European Union to support his country in the war it is waging in Gaza against Hamas and in the release of the hostages captured by the Palestinian militia on October 7th.
At the invitation of the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell, Katz met with his EU counterparts to discuss the situation in the Middle East and when he arrived at the meeting he said: He requested the assistance of the Twenty-Seven to free the hostages.
In a brief statement without questions to the press, the minister showed two photos with the faces of a one-year-old Israeli baby and another young girl captured by Hamas and said their release was “urgent and very important.” ” Katz also called for the EU's support in the war in Gaza Israeli soldiers “fight in very harsh conditions” with the aim of restoring Israel's security following the October 7 Hamas attack that left more than 1,200 people dead and 240 kidnapped, with an estimated 136 still in captivity.
Katz avoided answering questions from journalists about Borrell's proposed peace plan.