MADRID, December 10, 2025 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday met with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in the Spanish capital, Madrid.
Speaking during a joint press conference, President Abbas expressed his profound gratitude for Prime Minister Sánchez’s sincere efforts and Spain’s positions in support of the Palestinian people’s rights and the realization of peace based on justice and international law.
He renewed his gratitude to Spain for its historic decision to recognize the State of Palestine, and for its pioneering role and efforts to establish the international coalition aimed at expanding wave of recognitions of the State of Palestine, advancing the implementation of the two-state solution, and contributing to the issuance of the New York Declaration as a means to consolidate the political track and uphold UN Resolutions.
He noted that he had “in-depth” and “constructive” discussions with Spanish Prime Minister Sánchez, stressing the importance of the full and urgent implementation of President Trump’s plan and the UNSC resolution to stop Israel’s genocidal war, allow the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, reinstate educational, health, water, electricity, and other services, prevent the forced displacement of Palestinians, ensure Israeli occupation forces’ withdrawal from the Strip, enable the State of Palestine to assume its responsibilities, and initiate the reconstruction process.
President Abbas added that the meeting also addressed the need to halt the dangerous developments in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, stop Israeli colonial settlement expansion, annexation of Palestinian land, colonist violence, and release Palestinian tax revenues withheld by the occupation authorities.
He voiced his profound gratitude to Spain not only for the humanitarian assistance it provides to Palestinians, but also for its continued support for Palestinian state institution-building efforts, as well as for strengthening the Palestinians’ steadfastness on their land and enabling them to continue their struggle for freedom and independence.
The President affirmed adherence to the two-state solution based on the UN Resolutions and international law, as well as to the establishment of an independent, sovereign Palestinian State, based on the 4 June 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, living side by side with Israel.
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