{"id":385233,"date":"2025-08-30T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385233\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:04:11","slug":"spain-condemns-us-visa-ban-on-palestinian-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385233\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain condemns US visa ban on Palestinian officials"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Spain on Saturday condemned the US decision to revoke visas for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials, calling it \u201cunacceptable\u201d and urging the EU to take a leading role in defending Palestinian representation at the UN.<\/p>\n

Spain\u2019s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares talked to reporters ahead of an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unacceptable that the Palestinian delegation or Mahmoud Abbas couldn’t attend the UN General Assembly … its protection, its immunity is worldwide and the European Union must be at the forefront of those that defend it. That should also be a clear message from today’s meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albares used the announcement to reiterate Spain\u2019s call for urgent EU action on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning that words alone were no longer sufficient.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe EU is doing too little, too late and doing nothing. Haven’t achieved anything. So the time of declaration is really over. We have to move forward,\u201d he said, detailing a Spanish-proposed action plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe European Union can only relate to Israel through human rights, and if there is a massive violation, as the report of the Commission has clearly indicated, we must act. This is not anymore the time of war. It’s the time for action, action to stop the war, action to break the blockade of famine from Israel to Gaza,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpain has proposed an action plan with things that, by the way, are nothing extraordinary. It’s just fulfilling and complying with our own European legislation or international legislation, that’s all and certainly, we are going to continue pushing forward,” he added.<\/p>\n

Albares outlined four key measures for the EU.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst to impose an arms embargo on selling weapons to Israel from the EU. Secondly, to enlarge the list of people that are being sanctioned, to anyone, absolutely anyone, that wants to spoil the two-state solution\u2026 Third, we have to back financially, very heavily, the Palestinian National Authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

“And fourth, we have to enforce and comply with all the rulings and all the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, for instance, stopping all trade with products coming from the illegal settlements, and also we propose the full suspension of that agreement into the EU and Israel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n


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