Madrid. The High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, said that there is little hope for a ceasefire in Gaza and called for the incorporation of new international actors to the negotiating table on the solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, such as Chile or Canada.
Speaking at a press conference after his participation as an observer in a meeting between representatives of European and Arab countries to promote a “clear timetable” to implement the two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Borrell thanked the efforts to “keep the prospect of this solution alive,” although “many steps must be taken” first.
Among them, a ceasefire that “is still being negotiated endlessly and, if not today, it will be tomorrow; and if not tomorrow, then we will see the day after,” complained the head of European diplomacy.
Borrell admitted that “there is little hope that this can be achieved in the short term,” but that this does not prevent us from continuing to work, for example, to provide aid to the population in Gaza and to ensure that a political solution is always in the offing.
“What is happening in Gaza is a horror, it is not justified,” he said, fearing that if the situation worsens, it could lead to a “regional collapse.”
Borrell recalled that the prerogative of recognizing Palestine as a state is a prerogative of each member state, but that “there is unanimity in the Union on the need to support the solution based on the construction of the Palestinian State”, given that “the State of Israel already exists, it is a democratic state, economically powerful, with a very important military capacity as well”. Regarding Chile, he stressed that “its positions” are well known and “very, very strong in terms of respect for human rights”.
