Arriving today at the EU Foreign Ministers’ informal meeting in Copenhagen, Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares Bueno told reporters:
“Spain has proposed an action plan for Gaza and for Palestine. The EU is doing too little and too late and doing nothing, not achieving anything. So the time for declaration is over. We have to move forward. … First to impose an arms embargo on selling weapons from the EU. Secondly, to enlarge the list of people who are sanctioned to anyone who wants to spoil the two-state solution, which is the only solution which will bring peace to the Middle East. Third, we have to back financially, very heavily, the Palestinian Authority, which has been struggling because of Israel withholding the taxes that should go to that Authority. And fourth, we have to enforce and comply with all the rulings and all the advisory opinions of the International Court of Justice, for instance, stopping all trade of products coming from the illegal settlements. And also based on Article 2 of the Council of Association between the EU and Israel, we propose a full suspension of that agreement between the EU and Israel.
