CAIRO, September 7, 2011 (WAFA) – The Egyptian Foreign Ministry Wednesday announced an Egyptian-Spanish coordination to support the Palestinian bid to gain full United Nations membership of a Palestinian state within 1967 borders later this month.

Amr Roshdy, Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman, said in a press release that Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammad Amr met with the Spanish Foreign Minister Juan Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo in Belgrade and discussed supporting the Palestinian bid.

Yáñez-Barnuevo stressed his country’s support of the Palestinian bid and its willingness to urge more European countries to support it as well, said Roshdy.

Amr welcomed the Spanish stance and stressed that Egypt has harnessed all its diplomatic power to rally the largest possible support for recognizing the Palestinian state.

The two ministers agreed to coordinate efforts regarding the matter in the upcoming period, concluded the statement.

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