Eduardo González
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, assured yesterday that Spain, Ireland and Norway continue to “analyze the correct response” to “Israel’s provocations” and announced that Slovenia, which also recognized the Palestinian State last Thursday, “has requested join” this protest because he suffers “similar pressures.”
“There is courtesy and diplomatic customs that cannot be violated: filming ambassadors and exposing them publicly when they have been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not respecting the diplomatic relations that we must have between friendly countries,” he warned during a joint press conference with the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shoukri, at the Ministry’s headquarters in Madrid. “We are not going to allow ourselves to be intimidated and we are not going to fall into provocations, and we will act calmly and calmly, but we will give the correct response,” he insisted, without further details.
Regarding Israel’s decision to prohibit the Consulate General of Spain in Jerusalem from providing services to Palestinians, Albares once again rejected “any obstruction to the normal work” of this representation and recalled that the Vienna conventions on diplomatic and consular relations “They are mandatory for everyone” and Spain “scrupulously respects them.”
Likewise, he recalled that the Consulate General of Spain in Jerusalem enjoys a “very particular status, a historical status”, because it was created in the mid-19th century, “long before the existence of the State of Israel”, and, since then , has been “functioning completely normally.” He also recalled that in 1986, when Spain established diplomatic relations with Israel, the Government of this country committed in the exchange of notes to recognize and “respect that historical status of the Consulate General.”
