Belgian Foreign Minister: We will recognize Palestine when the time comes. Lahbib expressed her doubts about the influence of the United Nations in the war in Gaza.
For his part, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez said that his country would recognize Palestine as a sovereign state. Since 1988, 139 out of 193 countries in the U.N. have recognized Palestinian statehood. The Arab countries and the European Union agreed during a meeting in Spain last November that the two-state solution is the only solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.