Irish public television has revealed the date on which Ireland, Spain and other European Union countries would recognize the State of Palestine. It would be Tuesday, May 21according to the chain cited.
Contacts between these countries as well as between Slovenia and Malta have been intensified with a view to the territories jointly recognize the Palestinian State analyzing May 21 as an alternative.
Precisely, the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezhad a telephone conversation last Monday with the Irish Prime Minister, Simon Harris, in which they highlighted the importance of formally recognizing the Palestinian State and agreed to take the step “shortly”, although without entering into possible dates.
Likewise, the Government spokesperson, Pilar AlegrÃa, reaffirmed on Tuesday after the Council of Ministers the Government’s will to recognize Palestine as a State in the first half of the year in accordance with the “calendar” that the president has set, after the vice president second, Yolanda DÃaz, has demanded in recent days to take the step immediately.
In this sense, he claimed Sánchez’s “leader” role at the European level and international on its position in favor of the recognition of the Palestinian State and its permanent contacts to “achieve that objective”.
