Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday said there were "clear signs" in Europe that countries in the region were prepared to recognise a Palestinian state.
Pedro Sanchez, Reuters/Jehad Shelbak
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday said there were "clear signs" in Europe that countries in the region were prepared to recognise a Palestinian state.
Sanchez had earlier met with his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Store in Oslo amid his diplomatic campaign to garner support for the recognition of Palestinian statehood.
Pedro Sanchez may be moving too quickly. There is no consensus on this issue, which does not resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Sanchez and, more generally, the Spanish left have always been hostile to Israel and supportive of the Palestinian cause.
Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories for want of participants, its Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed on Thursday, after some countries expressed dissatisfaction.
At the Arab Summit in Cairo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced the creation of a vice president position and an amnesty aimed at reintegrating dissident members of his party, Fatah.
"No Other Land," a film about Israeli displacement of a Palestinian community, won the documentary feature film Oscar on Sunday, and its directors appealed to the world to help end the conflict and accused the United States of blocking a solution.
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