Eduardo González
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, received this Monday the Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), Nasser Kamel, with whom he spoke about how to increase the impact of the work of this organization in the European Union.
“We have discussed how to continue strengthening the Union for the Mediterranean, a key organization for dialogue and cooperation between the countries of our region,” declared the minister through social networks. “We are working so that its action has an even greater impact in the EU,” he added after the meeting, which took place at the ministerial headquarters of the Palacio de Viana.
The meeting took place almost a month after the Regional Forum of the UfM was held in Barcelona, in which the co-presidency of the organisation (the High Representative of the EU, Josep Borrell; and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of Jordan, Ayman Safadi) called for an “immediate and permanent ceasefire” in Gaza and Lebanon and supported the holding of “a peace conference to achieve a fair peace and the two-state solution”. For his part, Albares described the recognition of the Palestinian State as “indispensable” and asked the other member states to move from “words to deeds”.
The Union for the Mediterranean is a Euro-Mediterranean intergovernmental organisation that brings together 43 States (the 27 countries of the European Union and 16 countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, including Israel, Palestine and Lebanon). The Forum was boycotted by Israel for the second consecutive year and included the participation of Palestine for the first time since its recognition as a State by Spain.
