Spain proposes an “embargo” on arms sales to Israel.
Madrid, May 25 (EFE) –
Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares defended on Sunday the proposal of an “embargo” on arms sales to Israel to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the war in Gaza.
Albares proposed at the beginning of the summit of the Madrid Group, which brings together Madrid representatives of 20 European and Arab countries that promote the two-state solution as a way to overcome the conflict in the Middle East.
The Spanish minister said he would put concrete measures on the table at the meeting, the first of which is the immediate suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
“We all have to implement an arms embargo, there can be no arms sales to Israel,” added the Spanish Foreign Minister, who also called for a review of national and EU sanctions lists.
Albares has also indicated that he will ask those attending the meeting that the United Nations conference on Jun. 17 is a “great movement” of recognition of the Palestinian state so that those countries that have not done so take the step that Spain took a year ago.
“The only interest of all of us gathered here today is to stop this unjust, cruel, and inhumane Israeli war in Gaza, to break the blockade of humanitarian aid, and to move definitively towards the two-state solution,” Albares declared, stressing that silence in the face of what is happening is “complicity.”
This second meeting of the Madrid Group brings together the foreign ministers of some twenty Arab and European countries, including Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Brazil. EFE pc/mcd
