MADRID (Reuters) – Spain has agreed with the leaders of Eire, Malta and Slovenia to take the primary steps in direction of recognising a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez mentioned on Friday following a gathering of the European Council in Brussels.
Talking for Spain, Sanchez anticipated the popularity to occur through the present four-year legislature that started final 12 months.
He advised reporters the settlement was reached after assembly together with his Irish, Maltese and Slovenian counterparts on the sidelines of the Council gathering on Friday morning.
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“We’re agreed that the one technique to obtain lasting peace and stability within the area is thru implementation of a two-state answer, with Israeli and Palestinian States dwelling side-by-side, in peace and safety,” learn a joint assertion issued by Eire after the assembly.
Arab states and the European Union agreed at a gathering in Spain in November {that a} two-state answer was the reply to the Palestinian-Israeli battle.
Since 1988, 139 out of 193 United Nations member states have recognised Palestinian statehood.
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(Reporting by David Latona; Modifying by Andrei Khalip and Hugh Lawson)
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