The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, begins this Monday a new tour of the Middle East which can take him to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to address the conflict between Israel and Hamas with the leaders of these nations, defend a ceasefire and advocate for a two-state resolution.
After the break of Holy Week, Sánchez resumes his agenda with this worldwide exercise which can final till Wednesday and through which he’ll meet in Amman with the Jordanian king, Abdullah II; in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) with the crown prince of this nation, Mohamed bin Salmán; and in Doha with the Qatari emir, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
The tour, in the middle of Ramadan, continues the journeys which were made in current months to different nations in the space.
Specifically, after the Hamas terrorist assaults in Israeli territory on October 7, Sánchez participated on the twenty first of that month in a world summit in Egypt to analyze the conflict, and in November he visited Israel, Palestine and Egypt along with the prime minister. Belgian, Alexander de Croo.
He additionally addressed this problem in some of the conversations he had throughout the COP28 local weather change summit which was held in Dubai on December 1 and in the conferences with the essential authorities of Iraq with whom he met in Baghdad at the finish of the 12 months.
Sánchez’s will likely be the first go to by a head of the Spanish Executive to Jordan and Saudi Arabia in fifteen years, and the first to Qatar in 13, since José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was the final to accomplish that in 2009 and 2011, respectively.
It may also be his first journey to the area since final week, collectively along with his counterparts from Ireland, Malta and Slovenia, dedicated to recognizing the Palestinian state when “it could actually make a constructive contribution and the circumstances are proper.”
In his investiture debate he already dedicated to working for it, and at the starting of March he introduced that in this legislature will suggest this recognition to Parliamentto which Israel has reproached him for representing “a reward for terrorism.”
During the journey, Sánchez will reiterate his protection of a ceasefire that places finish to the humanitarian disaster that Gaza is experiencing and a world peace convention that promotes the solely resolution that it sees potential to the conflict: the coexistence of two States, Israel and Palestine.
That means recognizing not solely Palestine, but additionally Israel, which has not but been accepted by many Arab and Muslim nations, equivalent to Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Sánchez will journey to Jordan today, the place he’ll spend the night time to meet with Abdullah II on Tuesday and journey that very same day to Jeddah to meet with Prince Bin Salmán.
With him you’ll have the alternative to address, other than the state of affairs in the area, the determination of the Saudi group STC to purchase 9.9% of Telefónicato which the Executive responded by asserting that it’s going to take over 10% of the firm to safeguard its strategic capability.
The final stage of the tour will likely be Qatar, the place he’ll meet on Wednesday along with his emir and, in the absence of official affirmation of his agenda, he’ll preserve contact with Spanish businessmen with pursuits in this nation.
