MADRID: Spain’s parliament will vote Tuesday on a non-binding motion calling on the conservative government to recognise a Palestinian state in coordination with any similar EU move, parliamentary sources told AFP.
The ruling Popular Party and the main opposition Socialists were in talks on the final wording of the motion which has the support of the government, sources from the two parties said.
Socialists proposed the motion calling on the Spanish government to “recognise Palestine as a state”, the draft text of the motion which could be amended.
The draft also urged Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy “to promote in coordination with the European Union the recognition of the Palestinian state as sovereign, contiguous, democratic and independent which lives in peace and security with the state of Israel.”
“It is not binding, it does not set a timeline for the recognition, it gives the government the margin to proceed with the recognition when it feels it will be opportune,” Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo told reporters in Brussels on Monday.
“If we want to be effective this recognition must be done in coordination with the European Union,” he added.
The motion follows moves in other European countries intended to increase pressure for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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