{"id":14784,"date":"2018-09-22T03:08:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T03:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=14784"},"modified":"2018-09-22T03:08:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T03:08:35","slug":"spain-pushes-for-european-recognition-of-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/spain-pushes-for-european-recognition-of-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain Pushes for European Recognition of Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Spanish government will promote a European move to recognize Palestine as an independent state, Spain&#8217;s foreign minister said Thursday, adding that if the move fails the government will consider a Spain-only recognition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If \u201cthe EU is not able to reach unanimous decision &#8211; each to their own,\u201d Spain&#8217;s Minister of Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell said at a conference of European Union leaders in Austria Tuesday. He added the last option of individual recognition of Palestine is \u201con the table\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Borrell also said that he will launch an &#8220;intensive&#8221; consultation process with his counterparts to set a timetable for achieving a common position on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Palestinian Authority, there are now 139 countries that recognize Palestine. The European Union has disagreements over a unilateral move of this kind.<\/p>\n<p>The EU official position supports a two-state solution, the details of which will be achieved through negotiations between the sides.<\/p>\n<p>It has recently been reported that left-wing parties in Spain are exerting heavy pressure on Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to recognize a Palestinian state. According to those reports, opponents in Spain claim that such a step could lead \u201cIsrael\u201d to recognize an independent Catalonia.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on the European Union to recognize a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Editor The Spanish government will promote a European move to recognize Palestine as an independent state, Spain&#8217;s foreign minister said Thursday, adding that if the move fails the government will consider a Spain-only recognition. If \u201cthe EU is not able to reach unanimous decision &#8211; each to their own,\u201d Spain&#8217;s Minister of Foreign Affairs &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14786,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784\/revisions\/14786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}