Marina Pina

Updated Wednesday, January 31, 2024-11:52

  • Monarchy Felipe VI calls for "the establishment of the Palestinian State alongside Israel" to solve the conflict in Gaza

This Wednesday, King Felipe and Queen Letizia received the foreign ambassadors accredited in Spain at the Royal Palace of Madrid. Around

235 guests

gathered in the Throne Room, where the Monarch gave one of the speeches of the year in which he deals with the most topics, as he tries to synthesize in one speech the international scenario and Spain's role in it. .

Don Felipe recalled that 2024 marks the

20th anniversary

of the jihadist attacks of March 11. "That tragedy always makes us feel especially close and in solidarity with those who suffer terrorist violence around the world," said Felipe VI. Next, he recalled that Spain considers "that the victims of terrorism must

occupy a central place

in the policies of the States."

Before the ambassadors of more than a hundred countries, and with the absence of the representative of Russia, who delivered the credentials last April in a ceremony without graphic evidence, Felipe VI has once again asked for "

a global,

just and lasting peace in Ukraine". The King recalled that Spain will continue to help the country, and that "President Zelensky's peace formula represents

a solid foundation

on which to build that peace." He said it under the watchful eye of

Serhii Pohoreltsev,

ambassador of Ukraine, who agreed with Felipe VI's statements.

More serious was the statement by King

Rodica Radian-Gordon,

Israel's ambassador to Spain, who heard how the Monarch stated that "the tragedy that Gaza is experiencing is shocking the conscience of Humanity." In addition to insisting that the solution proposed by Spain at the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991, which involves the establishment of two States, is the one that "should be explored" by the international community. She also listened attentively to the representative of the Palestinian mission,

Husni Abdel Wahed.

Faced with an international panorama with so much instability, the King recalled that "Spain has contributed to making the European Union stronger and more autonomous" and has insisted that it is "especially relevant to preserve the international architecture of non-proliferation and disarmament so that we can

avoid a new arms race

."