MADRID 6 Oct. () –
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, and his Jordanian counterpart, Ayman Safadi, have called in unison this Sunday for the end of the conflict in Gaza and Lebanon, and vindicated the importance of international law in the framework of the recent uptick in regional hostilities between Israel, the Palestinian Hamas movement and the Lebanese Hezbollah militias.
“We ask for a halt in Gaza and to stop the war in Lebanon. International Law must be respected,” said Albares after the meeting with Safadi in the Jordanian capital, Amman, where the Spanish minister is accompanying King Felipe VI on his visit to country, and after a meeting in which the two diplomats reviewed “the excellent relations that unite both countries.”
The meeting took place in the midst of the Israeli Army’s invasion of Lebanon in response to the threat from Hezbollah, while maintaining its pressure on Gaza, where its bombings in retaliation for the massacre perpetrated by the Palestinian militias on October 7 of last year , have already left almost 42,000 Palestinians dead. Jordan is a country closely linked to Palestine as a neighbor and guarantor of the Muslim holy places in Jerusalem.
Albares accompanied King Felipe on the monarch’s visit to the school of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Baqa’a and highlighted the work of this organization – harshly criticized by Israel for its alleged complicity with Hamas. , something that the agency categorically rejects — “is essential for the food, health and education of six million Palestinian refugees, including boys and girls” in the Middle East, the minister indicates.
Albares, finally, has insisted on his support for Jordan as a “key” country in the stability of the Middle East, where he has allocated 80 million euros in international cooperation “for governance, health, gender equality and access to water and sanitation”.
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