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Spanish PM talks to PA’s Abbas, says US decision to withhold visas for UN gathering is ‘unjust’
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez embrace after a joint statement at the Moncloa palace in Madrid, Spain, September 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul White)
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez spoke with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to tell him that Madrid supports him after the US denied him a visa to attend a United Nations gathering of world leaders.
The visa denial is “unjust,” Sanchez says in a post on social media platform X.
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