Spanish PM suggests ‘we can definitively’ reach 2-state solution at peace confab next year

By AP 26 October 2023, 8:08 pm 2 Edit

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks during a media confernce at an EU summit in Brussels, March 24, 2023. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Spanish acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez calls for an international peace conference on the Middle East conflict to take place within six months with the aim of resolving the Israel-Hamas war.

“From Spain, we propose that an International Peace Conference be held within six months so that the entire international community feels involved, is involved and we can definitively find a two-state solution to Israel and Palestine,” he says in Brussels ahead of a European Union Council meeting.

Sánchez also calls for a humanitarian cease-fire in order to get aid into Gaza and calls on Hamas to release its at least 224 hostages.