The Diplomat
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has participated this Wednesday in Brussels in the first EU-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit, in which he again asked the international community to suspend the shipment of weapons to Israel.
Under the motto “Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity”, the summit has been held “in a particularly delicate context due to the situation in the Middle East and which particularly affects the GCC countries”, as Moncloa highlighted in a press release.
During his speech, Sánchez again called for a political solution in the Middle East, for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, for an end to the violence in the West Bank, for access to humanitarian aid to be guaranteed for the civilian population and for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas.
Likewise, as he has done on several occasions in the last two weeks, the President of the Government again asked the international community to suspend the shipment of weapons to Israel because, “at this time, the urgent thing is to stop the conflict.”
Sánchez also called for restraint on the part of the parties involved to avoid an overflow of the conflict that leads to a scenario of open war on a regional scale and insisted that only through the application of the two-state solution will a sustainable and lasting regional peace be achieved. With this objective, he urged the European Union and the States of the Gulf Cooperation Council to join forces to hold an International Peace Conference.
In addition, the President of the Government held two bilateral meetings on the margins of the Summit. For the first time, he met with the Prime Minister of Kuwait, Ahmad al-Abdullah, with whom he discussed his country’s priorities when it assumes the next rotating presidency of the Gulf Cooperation Council. The second meeting was with the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman, whom Sánchez thanked for the mediation efforts made by his country to achieve a future of peace and stability in the region, as well as the shared will to end the violence and make the two-state solution a reality.
