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ER Editor: Some tweets —
Prime Minister of Spain:
EU countries must respond to Spain and Ireland’s request to suspend free trade agreement with Israel pic.twitter.com/W4n9bJzxOd
— S p r i n t e r (@SprinterFamily) October 14, 2024
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called on other European Union members to join #Spain and Ireland in their request to suspend the EU’s free trade agreement with “Israel” due to its actions in #Gaza and Lebanon.#Sanchez urged his counterparts on Monday to “respond” to… pic.twitter.com/FJNwmWjy8k
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) October 14, 2024
The Cradle also picked this up. See —
Spanish PM calls to suspend EU–Israel free trade agreement
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Spain urges fellow EU members to suspend free trade agreement with Israeli regime
PRESS TV
Spain has called on fellow members of the European Union to suspend a free trade deal between the EU and Israel, amid the regime’s ongoing aggression in the Gaza Strip.
Since Tel Aviv launched its genocidal campaign last year, Spain and Ireland have been mounting pressure on the Israeli regime, jointly pushing to restore peace in West Asia.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrives for a summit at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 21, 2024. (File photo by AP)
Since February, both Spain and Ireland have been engaged in diplomatic efforts, touring European capitals and talking with other EU leaders who want a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement on the basis that the Israeli regime was in violation of the free trade agreement’s human rights clause.
On Monday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez urged other EU members to respond to Madrid and Dublin’s call and suspend Brussels’ free trade agreement with Tel Aviv over its ongoing aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese people.
“The European Commission must respond once and for all to the formal request made by two European countries to suspend the association agreement with Israel if it is found, as everything suggests, that human rights are being violated,” Sanchez said at an event in Barcelona.
The call from Sanchez adds to growing dissonance among member countries on what stance the EU should take on its trade ties with the Israeli regime. While Spain, Ireland, and Belgium want to suspend the agreement and mount pressure on Tel Aviv through trade sanctions, countries such as Finland, Austria, and Germany are more hesitant.
Last Friday, the Spanish premier called on the international community to stop all arms and ammunitions exports to the Zionist occupied lands, following intensified Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
On Saturday, 40 out of the 50 countries contributing troops to the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) condemned recent attacks on the international mission serving under the aegis of the UN and called for an investigation into the Israeli forces’ tank fire on UNIFIL headquarters and its stations along the border in Southern Lebanon.
UNIFIL was created by the UN Security Council in March 1978 to restore and maintain peace and security in Southern Lebanon. Spain has 676 members of its armed forces serving in the UNIFIL force, which consists of a total of 10,058 peacekeeping troops spread along the border.
On Sunday, the spokesman for the UN chief quoted Antonio Guterres pointing out that the Israeli attacks “may constitute a war crime.” (ER: Gee …)
“UNIFIL personnel and its premises must never be targeted,” Stephane Dujarric said, referring to the blue-helmeted international force. “Attacks against peacekeepers are in breach of international law… (and) may constitute a war crime.”
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